On 2008-08-06 17:19:55 -0700, Emil Ong wrote: Hi, > There are a couple of hitches, though. We dual-license Resin as GPL > and a closed source professional (upsell) version with a bit of extra > code for added performance/clustering. We'd like to distribute the > latter in the non-free repository (similar to flashplugin-nonfree). > At the moment, we don't have a package of the GPL version and I'm > not sure whether/when we'll be doing that.
Is the Pro version redistributable? That's a basic requirement for packages in multiverse (== non-free in Ubuntu) Most people prefers to work on free software (and not on close source one), so it would be a good idea to package the GPL version too. > Part of the rational is that the professional version just reverts > to the open source functionality if it doesn't find a license. > Another reason for the Pro package is that it contains some > platform-dependent code in C, while the pure GPL version contains > only Java; we wanted to remove the need for users to compile that > additional code. For which architectures is this C-code precompiled? > What is the procedure for submitting something to the nonfree > repository? The REVU page (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/Packages/REVU) > that I saw doesn't seem to address this case, but I'm guessing > there's some process because of Flash, et al. Can someone point me > in the right direction? It's the same as for packages to "universe" but don't expect that a multiverse package gets a high priority (and packages get currently reviewed very slowly already). > If I understand correctly, the flashplugin-nonfree package actually > downloads the plugin from Adobe. I should note that our package > will include the actual binaries. That's no problem as long as the license of the pro version allows redistribution of the binaries. Regards, Michael -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list Ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
