On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Ahmad Samir <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 6 December 2010 09:29, Ernest N. Wilcox Jr. <[email protected]> wrote: > > With regard to the naming of the repository dediocated to software > tainted > > with a patent, etc., How about "non-GPL"? I think that such a name should > be > > well understood by users of nearly any language, particularly if they are > > familiar with the GPL. > > > > My2cents > > -- > > Ernest N. Wilcox Jr. > > Registered Linux User 247790 > > ICQ 41060744 > > > > Read the afro-mentioned thread again; most of those stuff are released > under a GPL/GPL-like license (faad and faac packages for example, for > playing back and encoding using the AAC audio codec, respectively), > they're free open source software, but they infringe some patents. > > -- > Ahmad Samir > Why don't we call it universe or something like that? It's a neutral meaning where also packages without patents and such with patents can be stored in. -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Greetings Daniel Kreuter
