At Sun, 25 Nov 2012 22:00:25 +0100, Michał Masłowski wrote: > > I guess the question is: > > > > Can we download and distribute non-free code, if it is immediately > > deleted at the beginning of the build process? > > I don't want to assume that all this nonfree code has licenses allowing > us to distribute it
Nonfree code that can't be distributed verbatim is fairly uncommon (at least for the software that we package). Those cases definately would require us to create custom tarballs. > (e.g. some has no license or invalid ones like > mixing GPL with incompatible licenses). It would also prevent users > From legally selling CDs with our binary and source packages (since some > of this nonfree code disallows selling), while we want to support this > use. I didn't think about that either. I agree with you now. > > If we decide that we can't, I will contact the pacman devs and discuss > > getting `makepkg --allsource` run `prepare()`. > > +1 I guess I'll be sending them a patch in the next few days! Happy hacking, ~ Luke Shumaker _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.parabolagnulinux.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
