On Mon, Dec 03, 2018 12:56:37 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote: > Christian Glombek wrote: > > > This is an interesting question and I would like to back the idea of > > making this available on COPR. > > My 2 cents: > > The package *itself* complies to COPR's licensing guidelines, making it > > eligible for distribution via that service, while the runtime dependency > > of MatLAB makes it an uneligible candidate for the official Fedora Repos > > https://docs.pagure.org/copr.copr/user_documentation.html#what-i-can-build-in-copr > > "You agree not to use Copr to upload software code or other material > (“Material”) that: > ... > violates any rules or guidelines of the Fedora Project; > " Surely that's not meant to be interpreted as "your packages must follow the Fedora packaging guidelines", for if it is, packages in COPR will need review too. > In short, IMHO, if it's not good for fedora, but this, it is not good for > copr either. My personal summary of the discussion is as follows: - these packages are FOSS but do not conform to the Fedora packaging guidelines as they require non FOSS to run and, therefore, cannot be included in the main Fedora repos. - these packages are FOSS and, therefore, can be supplied via COPR where packages are not required to conform strictly to the Fedora packaging guidelines. - the current argument against including these packages in COPR is a philosophical one, not a technical/policy one---one that I tend to agree with at this moment. -- Thanks, Regards, Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD" https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha Time zone: Europe/London
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