[Mageia-dev] [RFC] Moving various packages/codecs to tainted

[andre999]

Juan Luis Baptiste a écrit :
> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 6:38 PM, Anssi Hannula<anssi at mageia.org>  wrote:
>    
>> I'm absolutely fine with either moving codecs to core or tainted, as
>> long as we are at least somewhat consistent in what is in core and what
>> is in tainted. However, I do not really like the reasoning "we do it
>> like mandriva did no matter if it is sensible or not".
>>
>> I'd possibly understand "we do it like mandriva did because they didn't
>> apparently have problems with these pkgs", but it IMHO wouldn't really
>> fly as we could just s/mandriva/ubuntu/ in that statement (and Ubuntu is
>> much more prominent than mdv IMO) and then everything would be in core...
>>
>>      
> IMHO, for sake's of simplicity and user friendliness, we should leave
> everything in core until there's a real threat from someone about
> patents. Surely if it appears some day,  we wouldn't be the first ones
> to be approached which would leave us plenty of time to correct this
> issue and move affected packages to tainted.
>
>    
I strongly agree with this approach.

-- 
André