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

Hans de Goede j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl
Sun Jan 20 21:51:55 CET 2008


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

+1

Regards,

Hans


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