Hello David, Am Mittwoch, 9. November 2022, 07:28:03 CET schrieb David Nichols:
I got notices for deletion requests against the oracle-instantclient packages in two OBS projects.
...these deletion requests are sent quite regularly to clean up OBS
This is a binary package from Oracle - there is no source, but it may be freely distributed: https://www.oracle.com/cz/database/technologies/faq-instant-client.html
This package has been listed as blacklisted in OpenSUSE since 2010: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Build_Service_application_blacklist#Package...
However, in the meantime, Oracle changed their redistribution policy to allow free redistribution of this package in binary format.
So you are free to build it on OBS in your sandpit (as your below link confirms)
I was not involved in the discussions, but back in 2010 my colleague got the oracle-instantclient binary packages accepted into OBS; he told me at the time that an exception was made (IIRC - in any cases the packages have been there for a long time despite being on the blacklist).
My question to anyone who can help - can this package get accepted into the NonFree project and removed from the blacklist?
It will clearly not be accepted into openSUSE-Factory, as binaries w/o source code are against our packaging guidelines: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_guidelines#Legal
If not, I believe that forbidding the oracle-instantclient package from OBS and OpenSUSE will adversely impact professionals that work with Oracle DBs - particularly due to the domino effect on dependent packages.
There is no legal reason for this restriction - just a philosophical one from my understanding.
Example project (now with a deletion request): https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:davidnichols/oracle-instantclie...
Keep it there, regarding the non-free repository I cant comment HTH Axel