rejecting wine1.3-gecko

Scott Ritchie scott at open-vote.org
Thu Mar 24 09:28:30 UTC 2011


On 03/24/2011 02:13 AM, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 07:09:25PM -0700, Scott Ritchie wrote:
>> On 03/22/2011 07:44 AM, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
>>> I'm rejecting wine1.3-gecko, it contains a binary without source but its licence requires that we distribute the source.
>>>
>>> Jonathan
>>
>> Is this true?  It's MPL-licensed, which I thought allows us to link to
>> the source rather than ship it directly.
> 
> It does but I don't see a link in this package and Ubuntu would have
> to be certain the source code would remain there for 12 months after
> the end of life of the distro version.
> 
> Jonathan

Hmm seems you're right.  I'll add the link to the sourceforge page.

We may have no choice other than the link, really, because this version
of wine-gecko can't be built entirely on Ubuntu (requires a Windows
step).  That pushes it into multiverse.

Next release (only for later Wine versions than will go into Natty) is
buildable on Ubuntu though :)

-Scott



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