Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-buildservice (256 mails)

[Tejas Guruswamy <tejas.guruswamy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've noticed some non-free packages being built on the OBS - for example 
flash-player, wireless drivers e.g. broadcom-wl, dubious media packages 
e.g. ffmpeg, and many more mentioned as forbidden on the wiki

http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Build_Service_application_blacklist

In addition to being questionable legally, it's not really in the spirit 
of the OBS to upload binary blobs anyway.

While I don't want to spoil anyone's fun, it would suck if anyone got 
into trouble for this, especially SUSE. So what is the best way to deal 
with this? Do we email the users? If they don't respond, should admins 
delete packages?

Maybe an automatic blacklist could be implemented when creating a 
package, to prevent the most common forbidden packages being uploaded?

Also, I think part of the problem is that there is no workflow for 
people who want to help update packages in openSUSE:*:NonFree. How can, 
if at all, a user contribute to those packages without breaking the 
rules? Is, for example, creating a branch allowed?

Regards,
Tejas
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