On 3/15/07, Andy Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks, Lucas. That will definitely lower the barrier to upgrading to > the latest version of their drivers periodically. > > I have a question: does this represent a change in policy that Recipes > can now be used to download and install binary-only apps? Despite the > "shim" compilation step, Nvidia seems like essentially a binary > download to me... > > I think it's a fine solution when the source is not available and the > binaries may not be redistributed in a repackaged form, but I thought > it had been shot down in the past, and I wanted to see if a Recipe for > e.g. Adobe Reader was now possible as long as any relevant license > screens are displayed.
With (a) support for displaying license agreements added to Compile and (b) a separate recipes store for binary-only/non-free stuff (don't know how well Compile currently handles multiple remote stores, btw), I think we could lower the restriction on the usage of recipes. Opinions? -- Hisham _______________________________________________ gobolinux-devel mailing list gobolinux-devel@lists.gobolinux.org http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-devel
