[Mageia-dev] Mirror layout : Why validate software patents ?

[Oliver Burger]

Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com> schrieb am 2010-12-08
> On 8 December 2010 10:51, Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b at googlemail.com> wrote:
> For Fedora, being the most legally-challenged distro around, they
> don't include any patented software in their official repos at all,
> not even mp3 playback is possible in a default install. They even
> don't include any non-free stuff, so no nVidia and ATI proprietary
> drivers. Fedora users use some 3rd party repos, e.g. RPM Fusion
> http://rpmfusion.org/
OpenSuSE does include some non-free software (like drivers) in their official 
repos but for those patent-related packages they have "packman" which is quite 
similar to Mandriva's plf.
In the OpenSuSE-BuildService you can build Mandriva packages but only if they 
have no dependencies outside main, because not even contrib is there...

And didn't Debian have "non-US" repositories?

Oliver