Hans de Goede wrote:
The Dribble, Freshrpms and Livna teams, already joined by some Fedora
contributors, are proud to announce the RPM Fusion project.
RPM Fusion aims to bring together many packagers from various 3rd party
repos and build a single add-on repository for Fedora and Red Hat
Enterprise Linux.
We don't have a repository ready for end users yet, but we are actively
working on merging the following ones:
* http://dribble.org.uk/
* http://freshrpms.net/
* http://rpm.livna.org/
Though not within the Fedora official structure, merging these throws
away one of the major points for end users in Fedora. Congrats on this
effort. Noticeably missing is ATrpms however.
We will have two distinct repositories: free and non-free. Free will
contain Open Source Software (as defined by the Fedora Packaging
Guidelines) which can't be included in Fedora -- for example because it
might be patent encumbered in the US. Non-free will contain everything
else which is not free software (as defined by the Fedora Licensing
Guidelines), like software with public available source-code that has
"no commercial use" restrictions or the graphics drivers from AMD and
Nvidia.
Thanks for this split. Hopefully we will able to link to the free part
from within Fedora.
Rahul
