| ivgalvez |
2012-06-23 10:46 |
Re: Community projects having problems with infrastucture
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Originally Posted by lma
(Post 1226154)
Can you elaborate? I thought non-free packages can be promoted at will by the maintainer?
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Apparently the problem is when you want to promote an application that is in the free repository, but depends on non-free packages. This issue was raised by inean, regarding the use of non-free stuff from Nokia combined with qt-components for Fremantle.
We need response from X-Fade as we really don't know if this is a predefined rule, a bug in the promotion mechanism or simply, we are plain wrong and there is not such issue.
Quote:
Originally Posted by lma
(Post 1226154)
I'm not sure what the issue is, but if it's the disposition of otherwise free packages that depend on non-free ones, it's a big one that should be discussed more widely (preferably on maemo-developers). One option would be to introduce a "contrib" component for those as Debian does.
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In fact, it's quite common to have free packages such as an open source game engine, depending on non-free stuff such as the game data, that might be re-distributable but non under an open license.
My suspicion is that we have some packages that should be organised in that way not properly classified.
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Originally Posted by lma
(Post 1226154)
This for instance is plain wrong (it should be in non-free, according to the content's licence). The free repositories should only contain freely-redistributable packages. If this was done so something that depends on it can also go in free then it's doubly wrong!
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Right, and probably is not the only case of non-free stuff packaged in the free repository. I suspect that a lot of old-times games are in that situation.
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Originally Posted by lma
(Post 1226154)
I don't see the permission there, just a reference to "previous posts" but there are none in that thread. URL?
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Yes, his previous posts are located elsewhere. Let me search for them and I will add them here for future reference. Anyhow, reading his post in the context of the thread, it's clear that he's giving permission to distribute that stuff. |
