[Fedora-packaging] pre-compiled binaries in SRPM/source tarball

Tom Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Wed Mar 9 22:13:04 UTC 2011


On 03/09/2011 04:38 PM, jan.klepek wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 16:27 -0500, Tom Callaway wrote:
>> remaking a tarball is generally only required if it includes items
>> that 
>>> aren't redistributable.
>>
>>
> 
> Ok, so exe file in source tarball could stay (as it is not used by build
> and it is just silently ignored and not used in final rpm).

If the licensing is clear and it permits unrestricted redistribution,
yes. If not, then the answer may be no.

~tom

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