On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:55:49 -0500 "Gregory Maxwell" <gmaxwell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2/21/06, Paul F. Johnson <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > Personally, I'd love to see everything under one roof > or failing that, > > have freshrpms and livna have the equivalent of a > rawhide build. > > Most of the external archives are almost completely > useless to those > who wish to, or must, keep their system of unfree > software because > there is no way to inhibit the random stray dependency > from sucking in > a lot of non-free stuff. > Agreed, Talking about solutions and not problems I propose: -Fedora Extras (as is) -Fedora Patent Encumbered (better name) aka Debian non-US -Fedora Non Commercial -Fedora Non Free Livna could very well keep serving as the Patent Encumbured place, The Fedora Project should not occupy itself with (too much) discussion about this, since we don't want to be involved in _any_ way. I'm just mentioning this one for completeness. Non Commercial should hold to much discussed already almost free software with some kinda not for commercial use clause, putting this here also makes it easier for CD creators to not burn themselves. This could be filled for starters with some programs from Livna which match these criteria, making Livna a pure patent poluted repo, instead of the mix its becoming now. Non Free would be for truly non Free software, so even more restrictive then no commercial use and even without source say for example binary gfx card drivers. We would then also need to add dependency rules, even if the license is 100 free then if: All deps in core or extras -> package in extras it has Non Free deps -> non Free repo it has Non-commercial deps -> no Commercial use repo Regards, Hans -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
