Re: [Mageia-dev] Mirror layout

2010-12-10 Thread andre999
Ernest N. Wilcox Jr. a écrit : Perhaps we should follow the approach other distributions seem to use. Official Mageia repos: Core: The core Mageia distribution (IMHO, should contain only a very minimal instalation (No GUI or Productivity software). Desktop: GUI and Productivity software.

Re: [Mageia-dev] Mirror layout

2010-12-10 Thread Anssi Hannula
Just some smallish notes regarding other distros.. On 10.12.2010 12:22, andre999 wrote: Debian uses the same names main, contrib, non-free, with explicit policy close to Mandriva practices. In the same policy page, they say that patent-contrained software goes into non-free, then further down

Re: [Mageia-dev] Mirror layout

2010-12-10 Thread Romain d'Alverny
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 17:04, Wolfgang Bornath molc...@googlemail.com wrote: 2010/12/10 Romain d'Alverny rdalve...@gmail.com: Let's try this: what if we consider, at first, that software patents were a non-issue? (that is, we just consider they are all invalid as such). From a mirror

Re: [Mageia-dev] Mirror layout

2010-12-10 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
2010/12/10 Romain d'Alverny rdalve...@gmail.com: Ok, but you still take into account SP in your answer. :-p (we would have come to that, but the idea was to think about it from a naïve, software-patent-free perspective). If there were no software patents anywhere what would be the issue of

Re: [Mageia-dev] Mirror layout

2010-12-10 Thread Romain d'Alverny
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 19:14, Wolfgang Bornath molc...@googlemail.com wrote: 2010/12/10 Romain d'Alverny rdalve...@gmail.com: Ok, but you still take into account SP in your answer. :-p (we would have come to that, but the idea was to think about it from a naïve, software-patent-free

Re: [Mageia-dev] Mirror layout

2010-12-10 Thread nicolas vigier
On Fri, 10 Dec 2010, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: 2010/12/10 Romain d'Alverny rdalve...@gmail.com: Ok, but you still take into account SP in your answer. :-p (we would have come to that, but the idea was to think about it from a naïve, software-patent-free perspective). If there were no

Re: [Mageia-dev] Mirror layout

2010-12-10 Thread andre999
Romain d'Alverny a écrit : On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 16:35, Wolfgang Bornathmolc...@googlemail.com wrote: Isn't this what this whole discussion is about? There ARE legal issues with some software users regard as must have. Now, how do you avoid these issues? To summarize, strategies: 1.

Re: [Mageia-dev] Mirror layout

2010-12-10 Thread andre999
nicolas vigier a écrit : On Fri, 10 Dec 2010, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: 2010/12/10 Romain d'Alvernyrdalve...@gmail.com: Ok, but you still take into account SP in your answer. :-p (we would have come to that, but the idea was to think about it from a naïve, software-patent-free perspective).