On Thursday 23 October 2008 23:49:52 Martin Meredith wrote: > The licencing of rar doesn't really allow for us to do this. > > The licencing clearly states :- > > 5. The RAR/WinRAR unlicensed trial version may be freely distributed, > with exceptions noted below, provided the distribution package is > not modified in any way. > > This means that we cannot redistribute the x64 version alongside the > i386 version without using a separate orig.tar.gz for that version, > which I'm not too sure the archive/etc would eb able to cope with having > two different source packages build the same binary for different > architectures. > > To be honest, I personally would rather leave it as it is, rather than > making what I see as kludgy changes to accomodate something that is > likely to be more unstable, and also, for myself, currently, untestable. > > I've consulted with the ftp-master team regarding whether the 2 source > names one binary name is possible, and am awaiting a reply, though even > if it is, I'm going to be wary doing this.
Martin, you received a positive reply from Eugene Roshal, sayng that you're allowed to package two RAR distributives into same TAR, provided that such distributives contain all original files not modified Consider doing this Cheers, Matteo Croce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
