s/nonfree/freeworld/ in package name postfix?!

Xavier Lamien laxathom at fedoraproject.org
Sun Jan 20 15:28:21 CET 2008


2008/1/20, Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info>:
>
> Hi all!
>
> FYI: there was a new package reviewed for Livna which contains bits that
> are not acceptable for Fedora. During review it had the name-postifx
> "-nonfree".
>
> Several people never liked the term, as the bits in this and similar
> cases are actually free, just not acceptable for Fedora due to US laws.
>
> So there was a discussion to chose a different name. We quick settled on
> the term "freeworld". If that name is okay for everybody else I'd
> suggest we use it from now on and change all other "nonfree OSS"
> packages (audacious-plugins-nonfree, xine-lib-extras-nonfree,


I'm ok with

kde-multimedia-nonfree, ...) to that name before or during the move to
> RPM Fusion. Does that sound like a plan?


I suggest before.

For details see:
> http://bugzilla.livna.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1631
>
> Cu
> knurd
>



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