On 6 July 2011 13:58, Romain d'Alverny <rdalve...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:10, Wolfgang Bornath <molc...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> If we go back to the beginning of the discussion where to put such >> packages which were in PLF we made a clear difference: >> >> 1. All non-free goes into non-free >> >> 2. Software which may be illegal in some countries (mostly because of >> licensing) will go into tainted. >> >> That's all. Clear and simple. >> >> The question about GPL or other free licenses is not touched by >> tainted. So, everything which does not have to go to tainted will go >> to free (core) or non-free, depending on it's status. > > Indeed. > http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=licensing_policy#acceptable_licenses > says: > > "The tainted section accepts software under a license that is might be > free or open source and which cannot be redistributed publicly in > certain areas in the world, or due to patents issues." > > Reformulating it in an other, more explicit way maybe: > - "core" hosts 100% free software that can be redistributed anywhere > (or almost, the world is a bit more complicated than that) > - "nonfree" hosts non-free software that can be redistributed anywhere (same) > - "tainted" hosts all the rest, be it free software or not. >
Third point is wrong, "a license that is might be free or open source", which, I think, means only software with an open source software License. Although the wording should be clearer / more precise. > Romain > -- Ahmad Samir