<div dir="ltr"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 05:52, Sikon <<a href="mailto:inetperson@gmail.com">inetperson@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Packages that include binaries are not allowed, even in the multiverse repository (which includes things like flashplugin-nonfree that you mentioned). </blockquote><div>I don't recall coming across this ever in policy.  Could you point it out?  It's a matter of redistribution rights.  If the license explicitly allows redistribution of the binaries, it's okay I thought.   The reason that flashplugin-nonfree is the way it is is because Adobe doesn't allow redistribution except via their website. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Instead of distributing the actual binaries in the deb file, such packages download the binaries from the upstream website. This is a standard practice. What you can do is set up, say, a tar.gz file on your web server for the installer script to find, download and extract. However, I don't know about the others, but I'd prefer the GPL version to be packaged first. Ubuntu is, after all, first and foremost about free software. We use Resin in our company, and I use Ubuntu at my workstation, so I'm interested in helping to package Resin for Ubuntu. 2008/8/7 Emil Ong <<a href="mailto:emil@caucho.com">emil@caucho.com</a>>: <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">> Hi MOTU, > > I'm an engineer at Caucho, which makes the Resin Java application > server.  We've recently created a .deb package of our server that > we'd like to distribute on the Ubuntu repositories.  There's an > existing needs-packaging bug for Resin on Lauchpad, #105497. > > There are a couple of hitches, though.  We dual-license Resin as GPL > and a closed source professional (upsell) version with a bit of extra > code for added performance/clustering.  We'd like to distribute the > latter in the non-free repository (similar to flashplugin-nonfree). > At the moment, we don't have a package of the GPL version and I'm > not sure whether/when we'll be doing that. > > Part of the rational is that the professional version just reverts > to the open source functionality if it doesn't find a license. > Another reason for the Pro package is that it contains some > platform-dependent code in C, while the pure GPL version contains > only Java; we wanted to remove the need for users to compile that > additional code. > > What is the procedure for submitting something to the nonfree > repository?  The REVU page (<a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/Packages/REVU" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/Packages/REVU</a>) > that I saw doesn't seem to address this case, but I'm guessing > there's some process because of Flash, et al.  Can someone point me > in the right direction? > > If I understand correctly, the flashplugin-nonfree package actually > downloads the plugin from Adobe.  I should note that our package > will include the actual binaries. > > Thanks, > Emil > > ============================================================ > > Emil Ong > Software Engineer > Caucho Technology, Inc. > mailto:<a href="mailto:emil@caucho.com">emil@caucho.com</a> > <a href="http://blog.caucho.com/" target="_blank">http://blog.caucho.com/</a> > > Caucho: Reliable Open Source > --> Resin: application server > --> Quercus: PHP in Java > --> Hessian Web Services > > -- > Ubuntu-motu mailing list > <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu</a> > -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> -- Mario Limonciello <a href="mailto:superm1@gmail.com">superm1@gmail.com</a> </div>