[arch-dev-public] Definition of non-free for repo-reorg

Simo Leone simo at archlinux.org
Wed Jul 11 22:45:36 EDT 2007


On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 11:25:49AM +1000, James Rayner wrote:
> If we do separate "non-free" and "free" in the new repo layout, what will
> be the definition of "non-free"?
> 
> Will anything closed source be non-free (acroread, nvidia)? or only things
> that have license/patent/distribution issues, like codecs?
> 
I still don't see the need. We've never bothered in the past and it's
just making things more complicated, why bother now? 

-S
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