On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 08:46:51PM -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 19:10:34 -0500, Steven Pritchard <steve@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 2) Ask Warren (or whoever needs to be convinced at fedora.us) to set > > up a "non-free" repository for packages like pine, qmail, etc. > > that have source available but aren't quite OSI-compliant. That > > would make these programs, properly patched, readily available to > > fedora.us users without worrying about licensing issues. > > livna fills this role already and has already suggested in the > bugreport Rex opened at fedora.us. I suppose I should have clarified that I meant a repository of *source* packages. As near as I can tell, there would be nothing stopping fedora.us from distributing pine, qmail, and other programs will similar licenses as source rpms. Users would just have to "apt-get --compile source pine" or whatever. It might not be an elegant solution, but it would be better than nothing, I suppose... Steve -- Steven Pritchard - K&S Pritchard Enterprises, Inc. Email: steve@xxxxxxxxx http://www.kspei.com/ Phone: (618)398-7360 Mobile: (618)567-7320
