On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 01:03 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Adam Williamson wrote:
> Why is that stuff in -bad and not -ugly, when that's supposed to be the
> point of -ugly?
-ugly is only for stuff which would be in -good if it weren't for patent or
licensing issues. -bad isn't split per license, it's code upstream considers
unstable and which they probably didn't even bother auditing for license or
patent issues. The problem is that it has codecs which are actually needed,
such as Schroedinger/Dirac support. So Fedora now ships what it can ship out
of it. Maybe upstream should be splitting -bad into -bad and -badandugly or
something like that. ;-)
yeah, that's true. I'd wondered about that for a while, in fact. I kinda
assumed the descriptions implied that anything with patent issues must
go into ugly, but having four groups would seem the most sensible way to
do it.
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