Cristian Rodríguez wrote:

Christian escribió:

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- Is it allowed to build non GPL'd RPM's , or have I to remove it ?

Non-GPL compatible modules forbidden AFAIK.

Indeed, you are not allowed to build that on the OBS. Anyway, it is already being built on Packman and works: http://packman.links2linux.org/package/broadcom-wl Regards, Tejas

.debs can be interactive during installation, while rpms cannot. It's one of the big differences between the formats. So you can force license acceptance with .debs, but not .rpms unless you make an installer that actually checks for licenses that need acceptance for rpms. On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 15:23 +0000, Christian wrote:

Hi Dominique,

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A pity, this driver will probably be removed soon from the servers again...

yes, what a pity.

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The license from the Makefile is everything else than clear: this is GPL and just a few sentences down 'this is unpublished proprietary software'... they should decide on that.

I would be looking forward to help out for this driver (personal interest, as I have a bcm4328 in my notebook.. and ndiswrapper suxx)

Isn't there a possibilty to force user to accept license before using ? ubuntu 8.10 does have something similar. It points out having a "proprietary" driver and asks user to "activate" this driver. Good idea.

And if I do not publish, just build ? And publish it on my website ? What do you think about that ?

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Dominique

Chris

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On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 05:33:43AM -0600, Rajko M. wrote:

On Tuesday 23 December 2008 10:59:26 am Luke Imhoff wrote:

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.debs can be interactive during installation, while rpms cannot.  It's one of the big differences between the formats.  So you can force license acceptance with .debs, but not .rpms unless you make an installer that actually checks for licenses that need acceptance for rpms.

I don't know how deb format works, but rpm can run preinstallation script and it is up to the packager how it will be used. User can be asked any kind of question before installation and proceed depending on the answer.

Our installers make EULA / License acceptance possible by entries in the Meta Data format (repo-md). However, the driver is deemed illegal in itself, so a license will not help. (The distributor of the RPMs is likely liable then, not the downloader.) Ciao, Marcus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+help@opensuse.org

* Adrian Schröter [2009-01-07 11:35]:

means non-GPL also closed source ?

In that case, yes it is forbidden.

What about fonts, BTW? On CTAN you can find lots of fonts that are ok to redistribute but not available in source form. Even I think the URW+ fonts in Ghostscript are not "open source" or GPL, but I'm not sure. Bernhard -- Bernhard Walle, SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Architecture Development -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+help@opensuse.org