Non-redistributable packages: Skype, spotify, ...

[Nicolas Chauvet]

2013/10/30 Alec Leamas <leamas.alec at gmail.com>

> On the wishlist and/or dead reviews we have some re-distributable packages
> such as skype, spotify and msttcore-fonts. After scratching my head over
> these I've hacked some silly scripts , called them lpf (Local package
> Factory) and made a package of it. It's on it's way into fedora, currently
> in rawhide, f20 and  f19 updates-testing.
>
> Using this package it should be simpler to package a thing like spotify.
> The downloader lpf-spotfy-client is also on it's way into fedora, lpf-skype
> needs a review.  The overall idea here is to have a common framework for
> these packages simplifying for both users and packagers. Since they by
> definition don't contain any upstream stuff they go into fedora rather than
> rpmfusion, although they are on the rpmfusion wishlist.
>
> I don't know if this is a good idea. Time will tell,
>

Hello Alec,

I don't get the point to have non-free software "remotely within fedora".
But if acceptable I guess it could be possible to have
rpmfusion-*free-release in ? (the laters are freely redistributable).

Thx for this initiative...

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Nicolas (kwizart)
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