[Mageia-dev] Mirror layout, round two

Ahmad Samir ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com
Mon Dec 6 10:25:20 CET 2010


On 6 December 2010 09:29, Ernest N. Wilcox Jr. <ewilcox at bex.net> wrote:
> With regard to the naming of the repository dediocated to software tainted
> with a patent, etc., How about "non-GPL"? I think that such a name should be
> well understood by users of nearly any language, particularly if they are
> familiar with the GPL.
>
> My2cents
> --
> Ernest N. Wilcox Jr.
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>

Read the afro-mentioned thread again; most of those stuff are released
under a GPL/GPL-like license (faad and faac packages for example, for
playing back and encoding using the AAC audio codec, respectively),
they're free open source software, but they infringe some patents.

-- 
Ahmad Samir


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