On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 19:45 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 22:27 +0530, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote:
>>> Like you said, the modified .star files can't be distributed, but the
>>> ADC data files are fine to package as is, under the "Redistributable,
no
>>> modification permitted".
>> Does this mean I can have a package whose spec file generates the
>> .star file from the catalog, so that installing starplot-gliese3
>> directly provides the .star file? (I think 'no'.)
>
> No, because we'd be distributing the .star files in that scenario.
>
What about a %post generating them under /var/lib ? I know this ain't pretty
but I think it would solve the license issue.
Hmm, normally I'm against this, but if they were ghosted in the %files,
the package would "own" them, and we wouldn't actually be distributing
them.
~spot