On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 08:46:51PM -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 19:10:34 -0500, Steven Pritchard
<steve(a)silug.org> wrote:
> 2) Ask Warren (or whoever needs to be convinced at fedora.us) to set
> up a "non-free" repository for packages like pine, qmail, etc.
> that have source available but aren't quite OSI-compliant. That
> would make these programs, properly patched, readily available to
> fedora.us users without worrying about licensing issues.
livna fills this role already and has already suggested in the
bugreport Rex opened at fedora.us.
I suppose I should have clarified that I meant a repository of
*source* packages. As near as I can tell, there would be nothing
stopping fedora.us from distributing pine, qmail, and other programs
will similar licenses as source rpms. Users would just have to
"apt-get --compile source pine" or whatever.
It might not be an elegant solution, but it would be better than
nothing, I suppose...
Steve
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