On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 19:14:59 -0500
Eric Mesa <ericsbinaryworld(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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sean wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:27:09 -0500 Eric Mesa
> <ericsbinaryworld(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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>> In order to pull in packagers like those maintaining
Dries, Dag
>> Weirs, freshrpms, and others, and in order to assure
Fedora users
>> that their packages would work instead of saying, "if
you don't
>> use official packages, you're on your own," has there
been any
>> conversation on taking an example from Debian and
having a
>> non-free repository? It would also free up the
packagers who
>> spend so much time duplicating each other's packages
in order to
>> ensure compatibility. I know there are issues with
their ffmpeg
>> and mp3 codecs, but could these issues be solved
simply by
>> designating their repositories as non-free? I think it
would
>> greatly enhance the Fedora experience, IMHO as a loyal
FC user
>> since Yarrow.
>>
>
> Not speaking as an authority, but such notions are
directly against
> the stated goals of this project. The fact that there
are some
> people who want to also use non-free software doesn't
(and
> shouldn't) change the nature or goals of the project
itself. Those
> who want to do so should create a central repository
themselves and
> provide whatever guarantees they can muster. It's not
likely to
> ever be able to use Fedora branding though.
>
> Sean
>
I figured. I thought it was worth asking, just in case.
Good point!
Still I see a demand for this and much of the
infrastructure is there already with FE, we just need
additonal repos. There are people interested in this, and
it would be a waste of community effort to let them setup
there own build infrastructure and everything that comes
with it. Now if we're crossing a legal treshold by offering
them infrastructure then I agree 100% but if we can legally
help them by offering infrastructure, why not.
I've not thought about branding yet, maybe non-free needs a
non fedora name, I'm personally not all that interested in
non-free, as I won't use it.
What I'm interested in is no commercial use, this is so
close to 100% free (for me as an acedemic / private user) I
see a place for this under the Fedora Project.
Also (I'll take this discussion to the Livna list after
this mail since it doesn't belong here) I would like to see
livna cleaned-up / split so that livna users don't have to
worry about what they're sucking in through yum, currently
livna is (IMHO) becoming to much of a mixed bag.
Regards,
Hans
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