So sprach »Ben Bruscella« am 2002-01-17 um 10:15:54 +1100 : > actually 'illegal' to distribute binaries. Same with lame I think. I am > sure this will become more common, so how will this situation be handled in > a distribution like Mandrake?
Well, I don't see much of a problem - if it's illegal to distribute the binary, it won't be included. However, the MPlayer guys also give another explanation about why MPlayer binaries are bad: MPlayer is always optimized for the machine it was built on. So, if *I*'d build MPlayer binaries, I'd get Athlon binaries, which won't do any good on Celeron systems. Now MPlayer is a rather good example - for apps like this, it would be good if someone would release a "binary" rpm, which upon installation (rpm -Uvh) would compile the stuff and then install the optimized version. Hmm, interesting idea... Maybe I'll try to do something in this direction ;) This would not be illegal, would it? I mean, if the %post section would compile the stuff, the "binary" (or rather noarch?) RPM would only distribute the source. Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english) Homepage: http://www.iso-top.de | Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] iso-top.de - Die günstige Art an Linux Distributionen zu kommen Uptime: 2 days 2 hours 10 minutes
