RPM Fusion is a
software repository, providing add-on
packages for
Fedora Linux. It was born as a merge of the older repositories Livna, Dribble and Freshrpms. They distributed software that Fedora will not, either because it does not meet Fedora's definition of
free software
Free software or libre software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, and distribute it and any adapted versions. Free software is a matter of liberty, no ...
, or because distribution of that software may violate US law.
History
It was announced on 8 November 2007 that Livna was to be merged with Dribble and Freshrpms to create a unified repository of add-on software called RPM Fusion. Originally, Fedora 9 was to be the first release that RPM Fusion would be providing add-ons for. However, initially, RPM Fusion was not ready in time and Livna (and other repositories) continued to provide packages for Fedora 9. Subsequently, on 3 November 2008 all three software repositories were merged into RPM Fusion.
Former repositories
Livna
"Livna" is an
ananym
An anadrome is a word whose spelling is derived by reversing the spelling of another word. It is therefore a special type of anagram. There is a long history of names being coined as ananyms of existing words or names for entities related to the ...
of "Anvil," which is the
handle of Damien Nadé, the French programmer who maintains rpm.livna.org. While Livna (which is now defunct) was deprecated in favour of RPM Fusion,
libdvdcss
libdvdcss (or libdvdcss2 in some repositories) is a free and open-source software library for accessing and unscrambling DVDs encrypted with the Content Scramble System (CSS). libdvdcss is part of the VideoLAN project and is used by VLC media p ...
remained in the Livna repository due to copyright concerns.
Dribble
Dribble contains software not found in Fedora or Livna because they do not meet their stricter requirements. Dribble concentrates on multimedia, games and emulators yet is not limited to these genres.
Freshrpms
Made by Matthias Saou in 2000 for his own usage.
References
External links
* {{Official website, https://rpmfusion.org/
Software forbidden from inclusion in Fedora
Fedora Project