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

[Thorsten van Lil]

Am 08.07.2011 10:42, schrieb Wolfgang Bornath:
> 2011/7/8 James Kerr<jim at jkerr82508.free-online.co.uk>:
>> This thread has strayed far from the original question, which could be
>> re-stated as:
>>
>> Should tainted free software and tainted nonfree software be commingled in a
>> single tainted repository?
>
> How can tainted software be free software at the same time?
>

Because free is a matter of license, while tainted is a matter of patents.
For example, the libdvdcss2 is free, as the the source-code is open 
(GPL) but it touches the patent issue, so it's tainted.

Regards,
Thorsten