virtio-win drivers

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Thu Jan 21 13:29:10 UTC 2010


On 01/21/2010 08:17 AM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> I want to make sure it's
> recorded for posterity and indicated in the packaging guidelines that
> this is an option for developers in the future.

I'm with you on the former, but the packaging guidelines? You can't
package pre-built binaries in Fedora. Why should the packaging
guidelines mention them at all, aside from stating that you can't
package them?

I think the message here should be: If a code project is available under
a Free Software license, you can make pre-built binaries available on
fedorahosted.org as long as the source code used to build those binaries
is also made available and that the source code and the prebuilt
binaries are not distributed in the same tarball (or, at a minimum, that
a "source only" tarball is available).

~spot


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