I've read through the Pymol license, which permits the source code to be redistributed.
That means the correct way to handle this in fink is as follows: the fink package manager does the SVN checkout, strips out SVN stuff, and creates a tarball. We then host that tarball on the fink site (or the maintainer can host it), for download by fink users. Jack, if you have such a tarball which you would like fink to host, please let me know and I will arrange it. -- Dave P.S. The reason a direct SVN checkout can't easily be done in the fink context is the fact that we want to check the MD5-sum of whatever the user downloaded, and we can't easily do that unless the download is a single file. On Jan 19, 2007, at 7:14 PM, Jack Howarth wrote: > I noticed this week that a new pymol 0.99rc8 > version was released but starting with that > version no source tarball would be made available > on pymol.sourceforge.net. Rather users will have > to manually access the source via svn in an effort > to limit the ease of packaging this open source > software. > I am conflicted on this since I understand > Warren's effort to limit the effect of the > open source pymol on his support license sales. > However it somewhat defies the definition of > open source to limit the access like this. > How do the other fink developers feel we should > proceed? I suppose we could adjust the fink > packaging to no longer use a source tarball > but to use svn to download the particular > release branch and purge the .svn files out > to create a proper source tree. Any suggestions? > Jack > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to > share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php? > page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Fink-devel mailing list > Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
