Am 06.07.2011 14:04, schrieb Ahmad Samir:
On 6 July 2011 13:58, Romain d'Alverny<[email protected]> wrote:
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:10, Wolfgang Bornath<[email protected]> 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.
The reason why we have tainted is, that there are patents, which
restrain some user to use this software. So, it's a question of
legality, which should get the higher priority. The differentiation if
it's free or not-free is only a question of ideology.
Therefore, for me the situation is very simple. If there are
questionable patents for a software, we have to put it in tainted
(otherwise we destroy the whole idea of core/non-free/tainted). There is
no other option. We may can think about a tainted-free and
tainted-nonfree (like PLF) but IMHO it's not needed and as long as we
don't have such a repo, all tainted packages have to be put into tainted
(no matter what license they use).
Regards,
Thorsten
