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

Anssi Hannula anssi.hannula at iki.fi
Tue Mar 15 23:10:31 CET 2011


On 13.03.2011 22:01, Thomas Backlund wrote:
> sön 2011-03-13 klockan 21:55 +0200 skrev Tux99:
>>
>> During the review with my mentor Anssi of one of the packages I'm working
>> on, the question came up what the appropriate repository for a package is
>> that's both non-free (open source but not a FOSS license) and tainted
>> (contains sw. that is covered by patents in some parts of the world).
>>
>> Should a non-free+tainted package go in tainted, i.e. is the tainted repo
>> for all tainted packages, both free and non-free
>>
> 
> tainted, as thats a "bigger" issue than nonfree

I agree.

-- 
Anssi Hannula


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