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