On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 10:41:01PM +0530, Shakthi Kannan wrote: > I would like to know is there a way in Fedora to ship only binaries of > a free/open source software. <snip> It's my understanding that shipping binary-only is not compatible with Fedora's goals. Packages necessarily need to be buildable from source code in order to be packaged for distribution. Unless it's firmware and meets some very specific restrictions [1], it's probably ot going to happen. [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:LicensingGuidelines#Binary_Firmware -- Darryl L. Pierce, Sr. Software Engineer @ Red Hat, Inc. Delivering value year after year. Red Hat ranks #1 in value among software vendors. http://www.redhat.com/promo/vendor/
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