On 07/02/2008, Douglas McClendon <dmc.fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Christopher Brown wrote: > > On 07/02/2008, Douglas McClendon <dmc.fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> I've been meaning to do this myself for a long time, but I've just got a > >> lot of other higher priorities. I don't suppose I could implore someone > >> else into doing the work for me? Shouldn't be real hard. > >> > >> Wouldn't it be cool to be able to append a teeny little kickstart > >> postscript, and then end up with a livecd or system that has GE > >> installed for all users? > >> > >> http://packages.debian.org/etch/googleearth-package > > > > It doesn't have an open source license so can't be included in Fedora > > of course. Which makes it OT for this list IMO. > > I suspect this is a point you understand, but for the sake of clarity > I'll highlight- > > The "googleearth-package" package/.deb/[theoretical .rpm], absolutely > DOES have an open source license. > > What the _tool_ that it _provides_, does, is to generate a > non-open-source rpm from a simple commandline invocation and network access. > > Please, it's fine if you don't want to be the one to do this, but from a > legal and open-source perspective, I think that > googleearth-package*.[s]rpm belongs in fedora just as much as the > current .deb belongs in debian. Yeah, I got the inference. qv. the script that downloads restricted content on the Fedora Games DVD. So why don't we package a script that configures the nvidia binary driver? -- Christopher Brown http://www.chruz.com -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
