Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
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.
I've done a little more research and I strongly believe that install time
conversion is the answer. The data files in the format which we may distribute
are not modified in essence. starplot comes with a conversion program to change
them to its own format, I guess this is done once by a seperate conversion
program and not on the fly when loading for performance reasons, so the
converted files could be seen as cache files.
Regards,
Hans