Re: [fab] Non-free repository

["Stephen John Smoogen" <smooge gmail com>]

On 8/29/06, Tom 'spot' Callaway <tcallawa redhat com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 11:58 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>
> > > > None of the packages altered or dropped from Fedora Core so far meet
> > > > either the OSI or FSF guidelines. Openmotif and its dependencies in
> > > > Fedora Core dont. Few others like lha listed in the last audit update
> > > > mail probably isnt OSI compliant either.
> > > >
> >
> > Senses the new repository fedora-nonfree-but-mostly-distributable coming shape.
>
> I don't think Fedora wants to do this (or lend its name to something
> like this). Either it meets the OSI/FSF guidelines, or it doesn't.

Well the name was a better idea than the

fedora-why-the-crap-did-we-ship-this-before

which is a temp repository for packages that are being 'demoted' from
core+extras until such time as they get fixed.

> ~spot
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