Third party repos

[Richard Hughes]

On 26 February 2015 at 15:30, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh at redhat.com> wrote:
> This may be nitpicking, but what about the cases for things that ARE
> free and open-source, but may still be illegal in certain
> jurisdictions? (Such as patent-encumbered codecs).

I'm treating that as non-free and possibly patented. In my head I
couldn't call something "free and open source" if it's got patent
concerns that stop you using it.

> For example, installing a default MIME-type handler for files ending
> in .repo that allows GNOME Software to be launched and prompt you to
> load it if you click on such a path in a web browser. I think that
> would be in line with both statements.

I don't actually think that buys us anything in terms of usability.
You might as well just go to the website and download the
foo-release.rpm file, which is even better as it'll install the GPG
key too.

It also doesn't fix the issue that when you type "steam" into
gnome-software, nothing comes up. That's what we have to fix.

Richard