Medibuntu

Medibuntu (Multimedia, Entertainment & Distractions In Ubuntu)[1] was a community-maintained repository of Debian packages that could not be included in the Ubuntu distribution for legal reasons.

Medibuntu
Operating systemUbuntu
Available inEnglish
TypeSoftware repository
Website(not available anymore)

Reasons for non-inclusion include copyright, license or patent restrictions, or geographical variations in legislation, such as:

  • patentability of software, algorithms, formats and other abstract creation
  • legal restrictions on freedom of speech or communication
  • restrictions on the use of certain types of technology, such as cryptography
  • legal restrictions on imports of software technology, requiring for example specific permissions
  • offense which packages may cause to users that would make them unsuitable for Ubuntu's universe repository

Much free software and non-free software is affected by such restrictions somewhere in the world, thus preventing its inclusion into Ubuntu. Medibuntu packaged and distributed such software. Downloading, using, distributing or otherwise dealing with software from Medibuntu was possibly illegal depending on the user's jurisdiction/region. Examples of software in Medibuntu were Acrobat Reader, non-free codecs, Google Earth, and RealPlayer.

Current status

As of October 2013, the Medibuntu Project has come to an end. The Medibuntu repository is unmaintained and offline.[2]

gollark: There are, still, apparently reasonably good and useful-for-predictions models of what people do in stuff like behavioral economics and psychology, even if exactly how stuff works isn't known.
gollark: We cannot, yet, just spin up a bunch of test societies with and without [CONTENTIOUS THING REDACTED] to see if this is actually true.
gollark: > Everything can, and should be tested objectivelySay someone tells you "[CONTENTIOUS THING REDACTED] weakens the fabric of society" or something. We can take this to mean something like "[CONTENTIOUS THING REDACTED] leads to societies being worse off in the long run". How can you actually test this?
gollark: Ideally, but that isn't actually possible in all cases.
gollark: Quantum mechanics still makes very useful predictions even if the exact physical workings aren't known.

See also

References
  1. Medibuntu - Community Ubuntu Documentation
  2. "Farewell Medibuntu". The Linux MInt Blog. Retrieved 30 October 2013.
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