As far as I know, Livna policy is to only include open source software. It is a repo for patent-problematic, but yet open source software. So MPEG-4, MP3, AAC, H.264, Xvid, MPlayer etc stuff -- that all has open source implementations -- are available on Livna, and this is enough for playing virtually all multimedia content you can get.

Also, the nVidia and ATI drivers at Livna are the open source ones -- not the original, more feature rich, more powerful, 3D capable, binary ones.
I believe there is also a license problem when you download the original binary drivers, repackage them and put them someplace else for downloading. They are not freely distributable, I think. So if you repackage these binary drivers you are violating their licence for distribution.

What I think Livna (or other repo) could do is what the JPackage project does for a long time: provide nosrc.rpm packages.
These are only the source RPM without the license-problematic stuff. From the user perspective, he'll have to download the nosrc.rpm file plus the ZIP file from ATI/nVidia web site and issue one simple rpmbuild command to get the installable RPM.

Altought I understand the political and religious guidelines of the Fedora project, I still believe this is a huge problem that should be discussed and fixed somehow. So in this point, I don't agree with Paul Stauffer in his previous e-mail.

Regards,
Avi




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