OK it's all good. The author seems pretty cool about it. See forwarded message below for the final conversation. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Eugene Roshal <...> Date: 4 January 2011 17:21 Subject: Re: Fwd: Redistribution of RAR for Linux in binary package form To: Ray Rashif <schiv@archlinux.org> Hello,
- we add files required by our package manager (such as a .PKGINFO) - we move around files (to fit our distribution) - we don't distribute some files not needed by end-users (like makefile and rar_static)
This is ok. It is allowed to remove makefile and rar_static, if they are not suitable or needed in your Linux distribution. But all other files must be included. Eugene
Thank you so much. Here's a rundown of the packaging once again:
- we add files required by our package manager (such as a .PKGINFO) - we move around files (to fit our distribution) - we don't distribute some files not needed by end-users (like makefile and rar_static)
Here is an unofficial buildscript maintained by a user (not an official packager): http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rar/rar/PKGBUILD
If we brought it on to our repositories for official redistribution the main differences from the above script would be:
- we would INCLUDE unrar (and conflict with the package 'unrar' which we already have) - we would NOT INCLUDE rar_static - we would provide a binary package instead of just this buildscript