2008/6/25 Venky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 04:39:04PM +1200, Laszlo (Laca) Peter wrote: >> On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 23:07 -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: >> > The important thing to remember is that *a* package is better than *no >> > package*. Sometimes users won't have a good build recipe. Those >> > packages shouldn't be excluded from availability simply because there >> > is not an easily-reproduceable build recipe. >> >> I think that's a perfectly good reason to be excluded from /contrib. >> It's also a requirement of the most commonly used licenses. > > Ouch! You are right! That would be a GPL violation, for instance.
Again -- it depends on the license, etc. Sun distributes binary-only bits from pkg.opensolaris.org -- why should they get special dispensation? -- Shawn Walker _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
