objective : verify that Mandriva complies to the spirit of free software

Well, contrary to UbuntuNonFree, Mandriva is well known for its commitment to free software, they know that 100% free does not simply means 100% gratis like some could do...

• there has always been a free edition available (sometimes with some delay after the Official is made public and commercial)
• the cvs (now svn) has always been available for internal tools (bugzilla, hwdb-server) and those included in the distribution (drakxtools)
• now some editions are made public and gratic with proprietary software included, hence some vigilance needed from the free software community and contributors

enhancements required

• add a commitment to free software, rules that can be approved by developers and contributors and made public
• avoid adding automatically non-free repositories for Free Edition https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=40033

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