On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 05:56:57AM +0100, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > Hi all, > > I just noticed that steam was put into the multilib repo. It's > unfortunate that such questionable packages are brought into our repos > without any discussion (similar case are the catalyst drivers). > > My concern is it's license here. We modify and redistribute steam here > which is probably not allowed according to 1.B of steam's license. So > unless I am wrong here or there is a written permission from Valve > please remove this package asap. > > PS: It would be great if people would send a mail to this list before > they add random packages; especially if they don't have a free license. > > Greetings, > > Pierre > > -- > Pierre Schmitz, https://pierre-schmitz.com
I read through the entire license. It seemed ok to me but as I am not a lawyer I emailed them to request permission first to redistribute the package in community/multilib. Only after contacting 2 people at Valve, both of whom told me that it would be ok to package and distribute steam, did I move it into the repositores -- Daniel Wallace Archlinux Trusted User (gtmanfred) Georgia Institute of Technology
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