<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Alec Leamas <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:leamas.alec@gmail.com" target="_blank">leamas.alec@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Formally, this is about review request 3152 for dropbox-repo [1]. From<br>
a more practical POV, it's about users being able to install software<br>
like dropbox more or less "out of the box", an area where I think we<br>
really need to improve (as can be seen in all those "Fedora XX post<br>
installation guide" out there).<br>
<br>
My basic understanding is that current Fedora guidelines needs a<br>
interpretation in the rpmfusion context. Those brand new GL for 3-rd<br>
party repos are in [2] (discussions in [3]). For now, I think they can<br>
be abridged to:<br>
- Non-free repos can not be part of Fedora yum configuration.<br>
- In some cases free repos can be part of the configuration after<br>
FESCO/Fedora legal approval.<br>
<br>
Now, IMHO this doesn't really make much sense for rpmfusion for three reasons:<br>
- rpmfusion does not ban non-free software, it's one of the very<br>
reasons it exists.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>RPM Fusion doesn't ban non-free software, but it does not allow non redistributable software. It is not a place to ship everything regardless of its license.<br>
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- FESCO/Fedora legal cannot approve anything in rpmfusion.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>At the start of RPM Fusion we had a sort of steering committee which handled such decisions (IIRC Hans, Matthias and Thorsten). Each of them represented one of the repositories merged in RPM Fusion (Dribble, Freshrpms, and Livna).<br>
<br></div><div>It could be good to have such a committee back.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
- We already have a list of endorsed 3-rd party repos [4].<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That list is not endorsed in any way by RPM Fusion. It is just a list of third party repositories made for user convenience, some of which are known to work well (i.e. without conflicts) with RPM Fusion.<br>
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To handle this, my simple proposal is that we handles packaged yum<br>
repositories like this:<br>
- It's ok to package yum repositories listed in [4].<br>
- If anyone wants to change the list in [4] this should be announced<br>
here on rpmfusion-devel, and not done until we agree on it (similar to<br>
how we handle bundling exceptions).<br>
<br>
Thoughts. out there?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>As RPM Fusion follows Fedora guidelines and at present Fedora forbids to ship third party repositories, we should do the same. <br><br></div><div>Regards,<br><br>
Andrea.<br><br></div></div></div></div>