On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 08:29:10AM -0500, Tom spot Callaway wrote: > On 01/21/2010 08:17 AM, Paul W. Frields wrote: > > I want to make sure it's > > recorded for posterity and indicated in the packaging guidelines that > > this is an option for developers in the future. > > I'm with you on the former, but the packaging guidelines? You can't > package pre-built binaries in Fedora. Why should the packaging > guidelines mention them at all, aside from stating that you can't > package them? > > I think the message here should be: If a code project is available under > a Free Software license, you can make pre-built binaries available on > fedorahosted.org as long as the source code used to build those binaries > is also made available and that the source code and the prebuilt > binaries are not distributed in the same tarball (or, at a minimum, that > a "source only" tarball is available). That's a good restatement, thanks. I'd encourage the package guidelines to note that as an "info" admonition, answering the "what if" question that came up here. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
