what's the purpose of rpmfusion

[Conrad Meyer]

On Thursday 20 November 2008 03:29:10 pm Farkas Levente wrote:
> hi,
> after the libdvdcss discussion it'd be useful to define the purpose of
> rpmfusion. first of all imho it's a good thing to merge repos (even
> further rpmfusion and rpmforge would be nice). but currently it's not
> clear what kind of packages get into rpmfusion.
> - only those packages which can't be added to fedora? ie packages which
> is acceptable for fedora still can be in rpmfusion?
> - than which packages?
>   - kmods (ok it's clear)
>   - what else?
> eg: why these packages here rather then fedora:
> open-vm-tools, xvidcore, x264, gstreamer-plugins-bad, ffmpeg etc
> it'd be a useful faq or even documented on the start page.

Hi, this is made quite clear on the main page: "The goal is to simplify 
end-user experience by grouping as much add-on software as possible in a 
single location." Immediately thereafter it refers to 
http://rpmfusion.org/FoundingPrinciples, which states very clearly what is 
acceptable for RPM Fusion.

None of open-vm-tools, xvidcore, x264, gstreamer-plugins-bad, ffmpeg etc can 
be in Fedora proper because of patent concerns.

Please read (have you heard of google?!) before asking stupid questions on 
mailing lists (this goes for fedora-devel-list as well).

Regards,
-- 
Conrad Meyer <konrad at tylerc.org>