2010/12/8 andre999 and...@laposte.net:
By presenting a special set of repositories for patent-affected software, we
could be seen as justifying these patent sharks.
In their minds, why else would be accommodate them ?
Patented software is a reality in some countries. You can't discuss it
away
2010/12/8 Ahmad Samir ahmadsamir3...@gmail.com:
For Fedora, being the most legally-challenged distro around, they
don't include any patented software in their official repos at all,
not even mp3 playback is possible in a default install. They even
don't include any non-free stuff, so no
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Wolfgang Bornath molc...@googlemail.comwrote:
Oh, really? Some (like Mandriva) do not have such a repository because
they do not distribute such software at all, PLF does that for
Mandriva. What about Ubuntu? What about Fedora?
In Ubuntu you have some patented
Ahmad Samir ahmadsamir3...@gmail.com schrieb am 2010-12-08
On 8 December 2010 10:51, Wolfgang Bornath molc...@googlemail.com wrote:
For Fedora, being the most legally-challenged distro around, they
don't include any patented software in their official repos at all,
not even mp3 playback is
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Wolfgang Bornath molc...@googlemail.comwrote:
Yes, I know. The question was: do they have those patented software
within the same repo as all the other software or do they have an
extra repo for that.
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Le mercredi 08 décembre 2010 à 09:51 +0100, Wolfgang Bornath a écrit :
2010/12/8 andre999 and...@laposte.net:
By presenting a special set of repositories for patent-affected software, we
could be seen as justifying these patent sharks.
In their minds, why else would be accommodate them ?
On 8 December 2010 11:39, Wolfgang Bornath molc...@googlemail.com wrote:
2010/12/8 Ahmad Samir ahmadsamir3...@gmail.com:
For Fedora, being the most legally-challenged distro around, they
don't include any patented software in their official repos at all,
not even mp3 playback is possible in a
Wolfgang Bornath kirjoitti:
2010/12/8 andre999 and...@laposte.net:
Ok, I think, how many other distros have such repositories. Â According
to
comments on the list : none.
Oh, really? Some (like Mandriva) do not have such a repository because
they do not distribute such software at all,
In
Wolfgang Bornath kirjoitti:
2010/12/8 Daniel Kreuter daniel.kreute...@googlemail.com:
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Wolfgang Bornath
molc...@googlemail.com
wrote:
Oh, really? Some (like Mandriva) do not have such a repository because
they do not distribute such software at all, PLF does
Ahmad Samir kirjoitti:
Debian has a non-US repo... etc
There hasn't been a non-US repo in Debian releases in years. It existed
due to cryptographic regulations in the US, IIRC.
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Anssi Hannula
On 12/8/2010 5:47 AM, Anssi Hannula wrote:
Wolfgang Bornath kirjoitti:
2010/12/8 andre999and...@laposte.net:
Ok, I think, how many other distros have such repositories. Â According
to
comments on the list : none.
Oh, really? Some (like Mandriva) do not have such a repository because
they do
On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 09:35 -0700, Nex6 wrote:
Fedora does not have such software.
I personally would follow the fedora model.
Fedora is same as Mandriva and Suse. See Livna and Packman
respectively.
herman her...@aeronetworks.ca schrieb am 2010-12-08
On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 09:35 -0700, Nex6 wrote:
I personally would follow the fedora model.
Fedora is same as Mandriva and Suse. See Livna and Packman
respectively.
We are no company that has to be concerned with selling its product in some
On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 10:28 -0700, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
So, we either abandon the mirrorlist approach
or we have 2 mirrorlists (one with and one without tainted software)
and let the user decide which one he sets up on his system.
+1 for two mirror lists.
This is probably the simplest
2010/12/8 herman her...@aeronetworks.ca:
On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 10:28 -0700, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
So, we either abandon the mirrorlist approach
or we have 2 mirrorlists (one with and one without tainted software)
and let the user decide which one he sets up on his system.
+1 for two mirror
On Wed, 8 Dec 2010, Ahmad Samir wrote:
On 8 December 2010 11:39, Wolfgang Bornath molc...@googlemail.com wrote:
2010/12/8 Ahmad Samir ahmadsamir3...@gmail.com:
For Fedora, being the most legally-challenged distro around, they
don't include any patented software in their official repos at
We have a proposal to add an optional set of respositories for packages
subject to software patents - or at least, seem to be at risk of civil
pursuits in some countries, based on supposed violation of software patents.
As we know, the suggested name for these repositories is tainted.
Some
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