[aur-general] The license of flashplugin(-prerelease) requires a download?
There was some discussion in the flashplugin-prerelease's comment section[1] whether or not the PDF license of Flash Player (that is bigger than the tarball of the plugin itself) would be required to download along with the package. There was a suggestion to just use the post_install to link to the license (which the same guy said was redundant anyway because "We all know what we're installing, and how proprietary it is"). I could not care less for the license either but it's not that hard to just cut out the URL from the source=() section. So here we are. What do you guys think? Thanks for your time, Det [1] = http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32072
On 14.07.2011 20:03, Nimeton maili wrote:
There was some discussion in the flashplugin-prerelease's comment section[1] whether or not the PDF license of Flash Player (that is bigger than the tarball of the plugin itself) would be required to download along with the package.
There was a suggestion to just use the post_install to link to the license (which the same guy said was redundant anyway because "We all know what we're installing, and how proprietary it is").
I could not care less for the license either but it's not that hard to just cut out the URL from the source=() section.
So here we are. What do you guys think?
Thanks for your time, Det
[1] = http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32072 Can't the PDF be extracted to plain text?
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Sven-Hendrik Haase <sh@lutzhaase.com>wrote:
On 14.07.2011 20:03, Nimeton maili wrote:
There was some discussion in the flashplugin-prerelease's comment section[1] whether or not the PDF license of Flash Player (that is bigger than the tarball of the plugin itself) would be required to download along with the package.
There was a suggestion to just use the post_install to link to the license (which the same guy said was redundant anyway because "We all know what we're installing, and how proprietary it is").
I could not care less for the license either but it's not that hard to just cut out the URL from the source=() section.
So here we are. What do you guys think?
Thanks for your time, Det
[1] = http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32072 Can't the PDF be extracted to plain text?
I like this solution if it is possible.
On 7/14/11, Thomas Dziedzic <gostrc@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Sven-Hendrik Haase <sh@lutzhaase.com>wrote:
Can't the PDF be extracted to plain text?
I like this solution if it is possible.
In that case the easiest way would probably be to just copy-paste the latest Flash Player EULA from here to a text file (as "LICENSE" or something alike) every time there is a major version bump: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/eula/flashplayer11.html I'd guess just linking to this page is not sufficient (at least if you definitely want to avoid the cliché of poking the ice). This generally feels like a good idea and it's definitely better than downloading a stupid PDF. More ideas are still welcome, though.
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Det <nimetonmaili@gmail.com> wrote:
On 7/14/11, Thomas Dziedzic <gostrc@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Sven-Hendrik Haase <sh@lutzhaase.com wrote:
Can't the PDF be extracted to plain text?
I like this solution if it is possible.
In that case the easiest way would probably be to just copy-paste the latest Flash Player EULA from here to a text file (as "LICENSE" or something alike) every time there is a major version bump: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/eula/flashplayer11.html
I'd guess just linking to this page is not sufficient (at least if you definitely want to avoid the cliché of poking the ice).
This generally feels like a good idea and it's definitely better than downloading a stupid PDF. More ideas are still welcome, though.
I think ubuntu just ships with a flashplugin installer, and it fetches the plugin at install time. from http://packages.ubuntu.com/natty/flashplugin-installer "The distribution license of the Adobe Flash Player plugin is available at www.adobe.com. Installing this Ubuntu package implies that you have accepted the terms of that license." I think they can get away with not shipping a license file because they don't actually ship the binary. If that's the case, maybe we can get away with just stating that in the postinstall message, as long as the package remains in the aur.
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Sven-Hendrik Haase <sh@lutzhaase.com> wrote:
Can't the PDF be extracted to plain text?
Or from the html page http://www.adobe.com/products/eulas/players/shockwave/ We need all the languages? -- “The journey is more important than the destination—that’s part of life, if you only live for getting to the end, you’re almost always disappointed.” Donald E. Knuth
On 14.07.2011 21:12, Kazuo Teramoto wrote:
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Sven-Hendrik Haase <sh@lutzhaase.com> wrote:
Can't the PDF be extracted to plain text?
Or from the html page http://www.adobe.com/products/eulas/players/shockwave/
We need all the languages?
All our licenses are English only as far as I am aware.
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Det
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Kazuo Teramoto
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Nimeton maili
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Sven-Hendrik Haase
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Thomas Dziedzic