[Fedora-packaging] Shipping only binaries for open source software

[Tom Lane]

Shakthi Kannan <shakthimaan at gmail.com> writes:
> I would like to know is there a way in Fedora to ship only binaries of
> a free/open source software.

This seems rather contrary to the entire purpose of open source.

> Upstream releases the sources under a free/open source software
> license, but, would like one to register (for free) at their website
> before downloading the source. They want to be able to track who
> downloaded the sources.

You should ask on fedora-legal, but I think you will be told that if
they are requiring that then it's not actually freely licensed.

			regards, tom lane