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
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