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

[Romain d'Alverny]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 23:08, Balcaen John <mikala at mageia.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 July 2011 16:48:58 andre999 wrote:
> [...]
>>
>> 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.)
> I hope you're not serious when writing thoses lines.

Actually, this is what seems to be a standard process in the industry
when you read the headlines.

One doesn't hear about (software) patents when licensing occurs "as
expected", but when someone in the industry challenges (or is
challenged by) some other actor patent. Because that's the only way to
prove a patent to be ineffective (for various reasons) before it
expires.

(I am not proposing one or the other option - and it's going out of
the initial question in this thread - tmb reframed it well).

Romain