Once upon a time, seth vidal <skvidal(a)linux.duke.edu> said:
On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 09:51 -0500, jharnish(a)ci.grand-rapids.mi.us
wrote:
> [Third Party]
> flash-plugin...rpm ->
http://macromedia.mplug.org/rpm/RPMS.macromedia/flash-plugin-7.0.63-1.i38...
> vmware-player...rpm ->
http://download3.vmware.com/software/vmplayer/VMware-player-1.0.1-19317.i...
> ...etc
>
> This way you are not redistributing it but you are pointing to the original at the
vendor's location. Gentoo does something similar but they embed a script that pulls
the tarball down and installs it on the user's machine without intervention.
>
> This probably needs to go to the Yum group.
contributory infringement. Read up on it. :)
Neither of the above are infringing on anything. Both would be
downloading approved software from proper distributors for licensed use.
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Chris Adams <cmadams(a)hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.