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

Anssi Hannula anssi.hannula at iki.fi
Wed Dec 8 14:51:26 CET 2010


Michael Scherer kirjoitti:
> Ubuntu has a multiverse repository, and there is also various ppa, and
> medibuntu ( http://medibuntu.org/ ). Medibuntu is a fork of the PLF
> project ( even if they never credited us for the content of their start
> page ... ). Ubuntu is not as rigorous than Fedora or Debian.

IIRC multiverse is for packages with license issues. Patents do not count
as one, so they are in "universe" among other free non-core packages.

A nitpick, really, but still.
-- 
Anssi Hannula


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