Peter Lewis <ple...@aur.archlinux.org> wrote: >On Thu, 27 Oct 2011, Christopher luna wrote: > >> This is (again) about forbidding urls to warez on pkgbuilds on AUR. > >Hi. Please don't break threads though by starting new ones. > > >> probably you people have seen the discussion on the forum. >> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=128832 >> >> But is not going anyware. >> Now, I think ewaller, hitted the nail in the head when said: >> >> "If you don't have explicit permission to copy and distribute, you >may not copy and distribute. Period." >> >> I think something as easy like that would solve it all. > >I don't think so, since AUR packages do not distribute code. > >Take a look at my cedega package for one approach: > >http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ce/cedega/PKGBUILD > >but this is probably overkill for most cases. > >Just do what Ionut suggested earlier, put the name of the downloaded >file in the >source array, but without the URL, so that users have to already have >or >download the file themselves before running makepkg. > >Putting a rule to this effect for any/all non-free software would make >sense to >me. > >Pete.
I don't see the point. AUR packages do not redistribute anything. They contain URLs themselves. -- Sven-Hendrik