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

Wolfgang Bornath molch.b at googlemail.com
Tue Jul 12 23:05:34 CEST 2011


2011/7/12 andre999 <andr55 at laposte.net>:
>
> For all these reasons, I think that it is much more appropriate to wait to
> be approached by the patent holder.
> (If not ourselves, then some other distro.)
> And if that means that our constrained ("tainted") repos are almost empty,
> wouldn't that simplify things ?

I strongly advise NOT to do this. I gave my reasons and (much more
important) one of the people who are affected gave his reasons.

I see no sense in continuing this. We have a different perception of
laws, so it seems.

-- 
wobo


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