[Mageia-dev] Repository question: where do we put non-free+tainted RPMs?

[Anssi Hannula]

On 15.03.2011 12:28, Michael Scherer wrote:
> Le mardi 15 mars 2011 à 05:06 +0100, Tux99 a écrit :
>>
>> To add some examples of 'tainted+non-free' packages (that also include
>> source code) I just came across in plf free (plf doesn't seem to be too
>> strict about their free/non-free subdivision):
> 
> I was in Vienna in May 2004 when we first discussed the split with the 3
> others terrorists present ( but the change was effective 9 months
> later :
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.mandrake.plf.general/993 ), so I
> think I can call myself knowledgeable on the way things should be for
> PLF, despites having leaved the project some time ago. So if you
> provides examples, that's nice, but that's likely bugs.
> 
>> amrnb-7.0.0.2-2plf2011.0.src.rpm
>> amrwb-7.0.0.3-2plf2011.0.src.rpm
> 
> This one is interesting, because the whole code is free in the tarball,
> as this download the code from the internet at compile time. The
> resulting code is IMHO non-free. I would suggest to drop it and to use 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencore-amr/ , which is more cleanly
> licensed ( Apache license ). That's how rpmfusion does.
> 
> That's IMHO a bug that should be reported to PLF, unless Anssi
> disagree :)

What you say above is completely true.

>> faac-1.28-3plf2011.0.src.rpm
> 
> The software license is LGPL 2 or later, according to Sophie
> http://sophie.zarb.org/rpms/7f88a24475773b9426d03122bcaa521f

It is tagged incorrectly. It contains ISO reference source code that
forbids use in products that do not claim conformance to MPEG-2
NBC/MPEG-4 standards.

Actually faac is what this thread is about.

>> Where will we put these in Mangeia? 'tainted' or 'non-free' or a new
>> 'tainted+non-free' repo?
> 
> amrnb -> dropped, replaced by opencore-amr
> faac -> tainted


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Anssi Hannula