Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-buildservice (366 mails)

["Ciro Iriarte" <cyruspy@xxxxxxxxx>]

2007/8/25, Pascal Bleser <pascal.bleser@xxxxxxxxx>:
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> Ciro Iriarte wrote:
> > Last week i made some oracle-instanclient packages to build tora and
> > perl-DBD-Oracle, and where deleted because of legal issues.
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> Why not just build all that stuff against the Oracle shlibs and then
> distribute those, _without_ Oracle... ?

I also use sqlplus for example (oracle's client), so i would like it
to be included..

> (you won't be able to build in the OBS though)

So, it's the same to include just clntsh.so or the whole package in practice...

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> I mean, in the end, it just requires to have the clntsh.so.X shared
> library on the system. If someone has those libs installed (by getting
> Oracle from Oracle), it'll work.
>
> Would have to check the license against that, but I don't think there's
> a restriction, as you don't ship Oracle itself (just have it as a
> runtime dependency).
>
> > According to the license agreement it can be redistributed with other
> > apps, BUT, this paragraphs seem to avoid having it on a linux distro
> > as you can't control where it's going to be used:
>
> Right, you can't force to agree on the license when it's a public
> download (or at least not without a "click here to agree ...").

I think the Nvidia's kmp has one of this.... Not sure about Sun's JDK package...

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Regards,
Ciro
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