[gobolinux-users] Firefox up to date

[Lucas C. Villa Real]

On 8/10/06, Jonatan Liljedahl <lijon at kymatica.com> wrote:
> Lucas C. Villa Real wrote:
> > On 7/28/06, Sean Russell <gobo at ser1.net> wrote:
> >
> >> The discussion was about providing recipes which download non-OpenSource
> >> binaries, but the concept is the same.
> >
> >
> > I'm not against that. It might be better, though, to store such
> > recipes in a different store, or to make sure that a license text
> > appears so that the user aggrees on that before proceeding with its
> > installation/compilation.
>
> That would be very nice. Maybe a special recipe type? And a
> Resources/LICENSE file... And then the pre/post_install hooks can be
> used to set things up so it works as it should in gobolinux.
>
> This would be useful for many binary-only packages: firefox,
> thunderbird, openoffice, realplayer, flashplayer, google-earth, etc...
>
> And there should not be any legal issues since we don't distribute the
> binaries, only a plain-text recipe of how to download and install them,
> right?

As far as I know, yes.

-- 
Lucas
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