virtio-win drivers

[Paul W. Frields]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 08:29:10AM -0500, Tom spot Callaway wrote:
> 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).

That's a good restatement, thanks.  I'd encourage the package
guidelines to note that as an "info" admonition, answering the "what
if" question that came up here.

-- 
Paul W. Frields                                http://paul.frields.org/
  gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233  5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717
  http://redhat.com/   -  -  -  -   http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/
  irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug