On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Adrian Schröter <adrian@suse.de> wrote:
Am Samstag, 24. April 2010 11:24:28 schrieb Pau Garcia i Quiles:
Hello,
Why is the 'universe' repository for Ubuntu not available in OBS?
bascially for time and legal reasons. It contains packages which are considered to be at least problematic by Novell legal and I don't have time to review them.
No, you are wrong. Packages with may pose legal trouble are in *multiverse* not in universe. The only reason Ubuntu splits Debian's 'main' in 'main' and 'universe' is Canonical supports packages in Ubuntu 'main' but does not support packages in Ubuntu 'universe'. That's all. From a legal point of view, both 'main' and 'universe' are 100% clean. Let's see if this table clarifies the misconceptions with Ubuntu repositories: Repository | Legally clean? | FLOSS? | Frozen? | Supported? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ main | yes | yes | yes | yes restricted | yes | no | yes | yes universe | yes | yes | yes | no multiverse | might not | might not | no | no main-backports | yes | yes | no | no universe-backports | yes | yes | no | no multiverse-backports | might not | might not | no | no main-security | yes | yes | no | yes universe-security | yes | yes | no | no multiverse-security | might not | might not | no | no main-proposed | yes | yes | no | yes[1] [1] If ever promoted to 'main' Supported=no means "best effort support" (if you are not using a fixed-width font, the table will be a bit messy) -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+help@opensuse.org