On Tue, 30 Oct 2012, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
Nice to see that everyone went back to Start with this discussion,
almost using the same words in their arguments. Is this really needed?
There has been a wide consensus for the solution to put it into
tainted as has been said in this thread as well. There are 2 options
Each package in non-free must be inspected case-by-case to know if it can
be distributed/used, but their licenses are valid world-wide (because
copyright is pretty much universally accepted). The packages in tainted
can all be used/distributed *if* patents on software are not considered
valid in the country where the user/mirror resides. Do you really want to
mix those two?
Christiaan
