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

Xavier Bachelot xavier at bachelot.org
Tue Nov 18 15:14:21 CET 2008


Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> 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.
> 

iirc, Warren Togami was the one who first ship the flash package in a 
yum repo, with the agreement of Adobe. It might worth sending him a mail.

Regards,
Xavier



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