Thanks a lot for the feedback. I'm going to give some quick answers to what I have in mind: On Tuesday, March 18, 2014 21:31:50 Allan McRae wrote:
- Distributed as a deb file - Requires libpng12 (why is that in [community]...)
I've mentioned this to them just one day ago. Actually the PKGBUILD will be re-written once the issues on license were solved. I'll also mention particularly about libpng12, to see if a specific version with latest libpng can be made available.
- I don't trust licenses with multiple obvious typos - Is linking at runtime "integrating" with other software - Are dontations to Arch counted as us making a profit from having it in our repos? - The terms indicate we are legally responsible to stop (e.g.) Manjaro redistributing this.
I'll forward these questions/problems to them.
- we have to comply with PRC export laws and restrict distribution by country
Unfortunately I don't think they can do much about the export laws - But after a quick look, I don't see any more regional limitations in the laws than the restrictions by UN (I may be wrong since I'm not a lawyer, though). And currently skype, steam and flashplugin in our repos are also subjected to the U.S. export laws.
Overall, that is a no from me. It is a deb, so "packaging" is no burden for its users.
It would still be nicer to have popular software in our repos - but of course they have to meet our essential requirements. Only after the licensing issues been addressed, I'd like to ask again about the inclusion. Thanks again! Regards, Felix Yan