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

Samuel Verschelde stormi at laposte.net
Sun Mar 13 21:09:48 CET 2011


Le dimanche 13 mars 2011 21:01:15, Thomas Backlund a écrit :
> sön 2011-03-13 klockan 21:55 +0200 skrev Tux99:
> > During the review with my mentor Anssi of one of the packages I'm working
> > on, the question came up what the appropriate repository for a package is
> > that's both non-free (open source but not a FOSS license) and tainted
> > (contains sw. that is covered by patents in some parts of the world).
> > 
> > Should a non-free+tainted package go in tainted, i.e. is the tainted repo
> > for all tainted packages, both free and non-free
> 
> tainted, as thats a "bigger" issue than nonfree
> 
> --
> Thomas

I would have said the opposite, so that using core + tainted you're sure to 
get free software :)

Samuel


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