In Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Geoffrey Lee cum veritate scripsit :
[...]
> If you send a spec, would that be Ok?
How about a spec- and patch-Archive included in Mandrake?
Please ask your lawyers.
Distributing specs and patches for some "well-known" software should IMHO
be legal and can be placed i.e. in iso-image/Mandrake/{SPEC|SOURCE}.
If the specs and patches are OpenSource or copyrighted by Mdk and don't
contain too much stuff of the original "well-known" software they should
be used with (in case of "diff -u" patches *DO* contain small pieces of
original code) then it would IMHO be possible.
Many readers of this list know how to handles SRPMs, specs and patches for
building and installing binary RPMs.
And for newbies there could be a solution like a nice GUI mouseclick-
and-run-frontend to get the "well-known" software from the net, making the
[S]RPM and installing it after a displayed and accepted copyright
disclaimer.
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