On 07/28/2009 05:24 PM, David Cantrell wrote: > While it appears we can redistribute them with nautilus-dropbox, users would > not be allowed to use these images for other things. Is replacing them > sufficient for Fedora packaging? What about the pristine source? Can they be > left in the source archive or does that have to be scrubbed? Replacing them should be sufficient, as long as they are also deleted in %prep. You don't need to repackage the source archive, since we technically have permission to redistribute them, albeit under extremely narrow and unfriendly terms. > 2) nautilus-dropbox itself is a small piece of the larger dropbox client > system. When you install it, it will determine if you have ~/.dropbox-dist on > your system. If you don't, it will run the dropbox setup "thing", which > downloads dropbox-dist from Evenflow for your system and places it in > ~/.dropbox-dist. The contents of ~/.dropbox-dist are precompiled variants of > all of the libraries and programs they need to run. Dropbox appears to ignore > the system versions and just has you use whatever they include. This is the very definition of code fail. I think you're going to need to patch this out, so it uses system libs. > This isn't really part of nautilus-dropbox, it's just installed by the setup > program on the first run. The concern here is do we care about programs that > download large wads of precompiled software and stuff it in dot directories? Yeah, we care. ~spot _______________________________________________ Fedora-legal-list mailing list Fedora-legal-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legal-list
