[maemo-developers] Is mauku open source, i.e free or is in non-free?

[From: Valerio Valerio]

Hi,

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Ryan Abel <rabelg5 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Jan 27, 2010, at 2:28 AM, Henrik Hedberg wrote:
>
> > Ryan Abel wrote:
> >> On Jan 26, 2010, at 4:07 PM, Henrik Hedberg wrote:
> >>> Jeremiah Foster wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Bug #7505 asks if mauku is open or closed. According to the bug
> report, it looks pretty closed.
> >>> ...
> >>>> What should we do here? Move this to non-free?
> >>>  I am very aware of the meaning "free" here. Mauku was uploaded into
> the free section because there was (is) no non-free repository in Extras.
> However, the community insisted to close all external repositories and use
> Extras instead (done that). In addition, Ovi Store was not (is not, it is
> still beta) available for distribution channel.
> >> http://repository.maemo.org/extras/pool/fremantle/non-free/
> >
> >   Thanks, I know. But as I said, "[t]here have not been any discussion,
> announcements or instructions how to really handle QA in the non-free
> section." Thus, the non-free section in Extras does not officially exists.
> There is only procedures how to upload it into extras-devel.
>
> Er, yeah, as far as I'm aware the process is very nearly the same. . . .
> I'm inclined to believe that you should probably seek to enlighten your
> opinions with more fact before spreading them around.
>

The process it the same, the packages end up in the same queue, for example
some of FMS's emulators are in the non-free section and they were tested and
promoted to Extras.

If you need some help feel free to ask.

Best regards,

-- 
Valério Valério

http://www.valeriovalerio.org

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