[Mageia-dev] Repository question: where do we put non-free+tainted RPMs?

[James Kerr]

On 06/07/11 12:58, Romain d'Alverny wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:10, Wolfgang Bornath<molch.b at googlemail.com>  wrote:
>> If we go back to the beginning of the discussion where to put such
>> packages which were in PLF we made a clear difference:
>>
>> 1. All non-free goes into non-free
>>
>> 2. Software which may be illegal in some countries (mostly because of
>> licensing) will go into tainted.
>>
>> That's all. Clear and simple.
>>
>> The question about GPL or other free licenses is not touched by
>> tainted. So, everything which does not have to go to tainted will go
>> to free (core) or non-free, depending on it's status.
>
> Indeed. http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=licensing_policy#acceptable_licenses
> says:
>
> "The tainted section accepts software under a license that is might be
> free or open source and which cannot be redistributed publicly in
> certain areas in the world, or due to patents issues."
>
> Reformulating it in an other, more explicit way maybe:
>   - "core" hosts 100% free software that can be redistributed anywhere
> (or almost, the world is a bit more complicated than that)
>   - "nonfree" hosts non-free software that can be redistributed anywhere (same)


>   - "tainted" hosts all the rest, be it free software or not.
>

I don't think that the last line is entirely consistent with what I 
understood was Mageia's commitment to provide a free distro for those 
users who want it. Such a user would have to investigate whether or not 
a tainted package was free or nonfree, or not use the tainted repo at all.

Jim