Populating CVS (was Re: Dribble Frozen)

[Xavier Lamien]

2008/5/5 Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl>:

> Xavier Lamien wrote:
>
> > 2008/5/4 Ian Chapman <packages at amiga-hardware.com>:
> >
> >  Hi All,
> > >
> > > Just a quick note to those who it concerns that Dribble is now frozen
> > > and
> > > no new updates or packages will be permitted there. Most contributors
> > > are
> > > migrating their packages to RPM Fusion, including most of mine. Thanks
> > > very
> > > much and I wish RPM Fusion the best of luck.
> > >
> > >
> > Thanks a lot Ian,
> >
> > I think dribble will be the first to merge in next couple of days, as we
> > have a clean frozen version of packages set.
> >
> > Hans give a signal for cvssync.
> >
> >
> Xavier,
>
> We (Dribble) don't have a CVS, given the low package count and churn we've
> always been passing Ian srpms to build.
>
> So in order to get dribble's packages into rpmfusion cvs / look a side,
> someone would need to go to:
> http://dribble.org.uk/listrpms4.html
>
> Create cvs modules for all srpms listed there and then use cvs-import on
> the srpms linked from there to populate the cvs modules.
>
> Owners for the modules can be found here:
> http://rpmfusion.org/InitialPackageMerge
>
> But I guess all owners first need to have a FAS account, so maybe now
> would be a good moment to send a mail to the list asking everyone to create
> a FAS account?
>
> Hmm, I just realized that creating cvs modules isn't that easy because we
> first need to decide on a package for package base wether it goes to
> non-free or free.
>
> So what are the rules for free? I would like to suggest the following:
>
> "free: anything of which all components are under a license which is
> listed as
>  good on: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing
>
>  Notice that free fully follows this webpage except that chapter 6
> "Software
>  Types" is ignored.
>
>  Notice that anything depending upon anything in non-free must be in
> non-free
>  itself."
>
> Can everyone live with this? If we can agree this is the rule for the
> non-free free split, then I can make a list of which packages in dribble
> should go where.



I'll add a page with a list of related licenses who shoud go into free and
nonfree cvstree.
With a clarification on why free and nonfree.

Your point on these could be a start, so go for it on dribble and report
me(us) back the list.



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