Re: introducing 3e-calendar

Hi, thank you for your replies. My comment's are in the text bellow

On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Alec Leamas <leamas.alec(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: >> I have a question about >> non-open source codes, because our product is free only for some >> limited count of users, we do not want to place source code in >> required SRPM package. I was thinking about some kind of installer, >> which download precompiled binaries from our website like in the case >> of flash plugin. Is this an only option? > No, you have multiple options: > - The most straight-forward would be to package a closed source package, e. > g., like the nvidia drivers. In this case you publish binary blobs, and > package those using the binary as "source" in the rpm sense. > - You might consider to publish your own repository. Creating a repository > is not hard. However, you will probably need some help to create the > packages first anyway. > - The installer solutions used for e. g., flash and spotify and steam > reflects the fact that the vendors does not allow redistribution of their > binary code. > > You might want to consider allowing redistribution or not before proceeding. > Allowing redistribution (like Nvidia) make packaging much easier. However, > since you don't have control in this case there is a risk that e. g., other > distributions might distribute outdated content. I think this is the reason > other vendors does not allow it, or just distributes an installer. > > > > cheers! > > --alec > Thank you for very useful explanation. After reading this : https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines?rd=Packaging/Guidelines, especially section 'No inclusion of pre-built binaries or libraries' I was a little bit confused how can we deal with it.