[Mageia-dev] rehashing the faac issue

[Christian Lohmaier]

Hi *,

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 1:32 AM, Christiaan Welvaart
<cjw at daneel.dyndns.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Oct 2012, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
>>
>> There has been a wide consensus for the solution to put it into
>> tainted as has been said in this thread as well. There are 2 options
>
> Each package in non-free must be inspected case-by-case to know if it can be
> distributed/used, but their licenses are valid world-wide (because copyright
> is pretty much universally accepted). The packages in tainted can all be
> used/distributed *if* patents on software are not considered valid in the
> country where the user/mirror resides. Do you really want to mix those two?

Bad argument, as even with a separate repository these then *will* be mixed.
As you cannot have "free" packages that depend on the nonfree-tainted
in the free repo. Those would have to be put into nonfree-tainted as
well.

So nonfree-tainted will end up having "nonfree & tainted" and "free,
but depends on nonfree-tainted" packages.

I don't see a gain here.

ciao
Christian