2015-03-18 18:51 GMT+01:00 Ralf Corsepius <rc040...@freenet.de>: > On 03/18/2015 05:46 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > >> Hi >> >> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 12:21 PM, Mike Pinkerton wrote: >> >> >> What I don't understand is the wisdom of an official Fedora >> "product" endorsing a copr when either the software or packaging (or >> both) is not of sufficient quality to make it into the official >> Fedora repo. >> >> >> I don't think of it as a endorsement. >> > I see them as a means of discouraging people from packaging for Fedora: > > Ask yourself: "Why should I package a package properly, when I can get off > 'cheap'?" - msuchy's rationale is along this line. > > It is making them more easily >> discoverable but there is going to be a prompt of some sort that warns >> them of the nature of such software and users get to choose whether they >> are willing to accept that tradeoff for immediate access. One might >> choose to use say, Chromium regardless of the bundling issues for example. >> > > There are many more ways why a package not to be eligible for Fedora than > "bundling": > - Illegal/patent-encumbered in the US, but legal to distribute in other > countries. > - Legal to distribute binaries, repackaged for "packager lazyness", (e.g. > Java) or complexity (foreign arch binaries needed to support > cross-toolchains). > - Content-only packages (Videos, Audiofiles). > - Packages with ethical/political controversial contents. > ... > > In other words, if you are really serious about this plan, you need some > authority to continuously review the packages in such "endorsed" repos, > technically, legally and "politically". > > > The idea of use disabled-third-party-repos to ship non free software has been discused in the desktop list, this for example
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/desktop/2015-February/011634.html In fact, in the last meeting of the Workstation WG, one of the action items is: * Third party repositories (stickster, 15:41:18) * LINK: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#Summary_table is interesting. (stickster, 15:48:12) * LINK: https://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/spot/chromium/ , F21 last updated in january (kalev, 16:08:47) * LINK: https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/churchyard/chromium-russianfedora/ is the other i was thinking of (jwb, 16:09:29) * AGREED: Go for Chrome next (stickster, 16:15:39) * ACTION: cschalle stickster work up justification for Council and review gnome-software text for an appropriate warning to suggest (stickster, 16:16:12) **Go for Chrome next.** Here is the full text. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/desktop/2015-March/011722.html I said in my first message that the purpose of the Change is to help people to install non-free software. Probably I was wrong and there are legitimate uses. Anyway what is true is that *some people* wants to use this Change to make it easy to install non-free software. Sergio
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