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

[nicolas vigier]

On Wed, 06 Jul 2011, Thorsten van Lil wrote:

>
> The reason why we have tainted is, that there are patents, which restrain 
> some user to use this software. So, it's a question of legality, which 
> should get the higher priority. The differentiation if it's free or 
> not-free is only a question of ideology.
>
> Therefore, for me the situation is very simple. If there are questionable 
> patents for a software, we have to put it in tainted (otherwise we destroy 
> the whole idea of core/non-free/tainted). There is no other option. We may 

There is other options. It would also be possible to not include nonfree
patented software anywhere.