[Mageia-dev] rehashing the faac issue

[Wolfgang Bornath]

2012/10/2 Johnny A. Solbu <cooker at solbu.net>:
> Not according to official mageia documentation and policy it doesn't.
>
> https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_2_Release_Notes#The_Mageia_online_repositories
> That page states that there is No nonfree software in tainted.
>
> https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mirrors_policy#tainted
> Current policy states that nonfree packages are Not allowed in tainted. That includes patented nonfree packages.
>
> Then we also need to change current guidelines as to what goes in tainted.

This is exactly why we are discussing it here ! :)
These guidelines were set when this special case (faac) did not come
to mind. When it did, this discussion started.

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wobo