On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 12:27 AM, Martin Langhoff <[email protected] > wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 8:55 PM, David Leeming > <[email protected]> wrote: > > 1. Is the above the right way to do it, if someone with more Fedora > > experience than I can verify.. > > That's exactly how I'd do it. > > > 2. In our narrowband countries it takes an hour and downloads a lot per > > laptop, this is unworkable in PNG with large numbers of XOs and where the > > bandwidth is so expensive and unreliable. Isn't there a way to do this > > offline with a download, something we can run on a flashdrive? > > Install yum-utils, use yumdownloader --resolve <target packages> , you > end up with all the rpms, so then rpm -Uvh *rpm. > > > 3. is the update step above necessary (it requires downloading 33MB) > > Yep > > > 4. In doing the above am I violating a ton of licenses? > > That's complicated. I've studied software licensing, but _I am not > your lawyer_, this isn't legal advice, etc, etc. From my time under > books, > > Adobe Flash > - Not violating licenses if you do it as an end-user, if you do it as > a distributor, you're expected to fill out a form, and get approval. > > Gstreamer codecs > - Not violating licenses > - Some (most!) codecs are heavily patented with software patents, > depending on the jurisdiction, you're in the clear, in the gray, or in > the red. > I tend to also install gsreamer-plugins-bad as well as ugly. Shhh. Mavrothal has a little script which he published up on olpcnews when 11.2.0 came out http://www.olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=4965.msg33465;topicseen No warranties of course, and it does contain other installs which you may not wish. A nice little compendium of stuff though for when one forgets the exact names of things and is at another site. KG > > It is safe to say it's impossible to write a useful program without > walking over a dozen sw patents, so it's a sadly nonsensical space. > > > > m > -- > [email protected] > [email protected] -- Software Architect - OLPC > - ask interesting questions > - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first > - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel >
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