Reducing the number of necessary repos with non-free software (was Re: the libdvdcss issue)

Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski dominik at greysector.net
Tue Nov 18 14:09:57 CET 2008


On Tuesday, 18 November 2008 at 13:27, Andreas Thienemann wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, Hans de Goede wrote:
[...]
> > And Fedora Legal actually has cleared doing that (linking to rpmfusion from the 
> > wiki), this is something which still has to be implemented, but the permission 
> > is there. This was one of the main reasons to do the free / non-free split, to 
> > give Fedora something it can link to without even giving the appearance of 
> > promoting non free software.
> 
> Do not forget that one of the main reasons for fusion was the plan to 
> implement the Fedora + 1 repository concept for all software needs.
> Right now we're probably at Fedora + rpmfusion + livna + adobe...

I wonder if we could arrange an agreement with Adobe to let us distribute
the Flash Plugin as an RPM package. Maybe Adobe Reader too.

Regards,
R.

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