Guillaume Rousse a écrit : > Hello list. > > The case of faac package has been discussed several times already: > https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1730 > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg08059.html > > https://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/2012-June/016673.html > > So far, the conclusion was than we had no perfect solution to handle the > case of a software being having both licensing and patents issue, > whereas usually software only suffer from one of these problems only, > and than creating a dedicated 4th repository was unreasonable. Hence the > removal of the package from the mirrors (but not from our svn...). > > Given the importance of this package for several multimedia-related > software (it is a mandatory dependency for cinerella, for instance), I > think it's time to revisit this decision, and rather look for a > pragmatic solution rather than a merely bureaucratic one. So far, I > didn't see anything in the line of "we don't want to distribute it", > rather "we don't know how to do it"... > > For me, the simplest solution is just to decide between non-free and > tainted repository where this piece of code fits better (or sucks less), > eventually document the exception somewhere on the wiki, and stop > getting blocked eternally by our own rules...
unfortunately ... three weeks after the last post on this thread a long silence and there is nothing new in Mageia... Thanks again to Blogdrake's Repo !
