[Mageia-dev] About bug 6676

[AL13N]

Op donderdag 21 februari 2013 14:04:31 schreef Pierre-Malo Deniélou:
> On 21/02/13 12:12, Dan Fandrich wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 12:02:13PM +0000, Pierre-Malo Deniélou wrote:
> >> I would say that packages which autodownload non-free material should
> >> be in nonfree (like get-skype). For the same reason that free
> >> packages which Require a package in nonfree should be in nonfree.
> > 
> > But what happens when free content becomes available so that the non-free
> > download is no longer required? This is unlikely in the case of Skype,
> > but has happened with other games engines in the past.
> 
> If it becomes free, we push the newer version to the free repository.
> Fairly simple :-).
> 
> Cheers,

except that if this package is free and dependant on nonfree other package or 
content.

the moment this changes, it means that the old package becomes completely free 
without having any changes.

with games this is a possibility.

with respect to this, i would prefer it to be possible to have a gaming engine 
in free if it's free, even if there's content that is nonfree...; especially 
if it's theorethically possible for free content to be added.

it would mean that people developing free content for such a game (or starting 
such development) would not need to enable nonfree...