New dapper-commercial package (Panda)

Conrad Knauer atheoi at gmail.com
Mon Aug 7 19:28:19 BST 2006


On 8/7/06, Lee Revell <rlrevell at joe-job.com> wrote:

> > > > Just out of curiosity,
> > > > what packages do people think should go into dapper-commercial that
> > > > aren't there now? (e.g. Skype)
> > >
> > > I don't think Skype allows redistribution... I could be wrong.
> >
> > As per http://www.skype.com/help/faq/linux.html
> >
> > "Can I redistribute Skype for Linux? Yes, you can. For the fine print,
> > read the EULA. In short, please link back to Skype servers for the
> > actual file download (automatic downloading is OK), notify
> > distribution at skype.net about your intentions, and make the Skype EULA
> > terms clear to your users."
> >
> > So not really ;)
>
> So by "redistribute" they mean "you can link to our site"?  How nice of
> them.

One of the current dapper-commercial programs, "Omnis Studio" in
Add/Remove Applications, isn't hosted on Canonical but rather
apparently wants to add its own repository to your sources.list file
if you begin to install it.  Same thing really (and yes, that is
annoying ;)

CK



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