[arch-dev-public] Inclusion of RAR

Jan de Groot jan at jgc.homeip.net
Mon Jan 3 12:52:36 EST 2011


On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 01:40 +0800, Ray Rashif wrote:
> "If you redistribute exactly the same set of files as in original
> rarlinux-4.0.b3.tar.gz tar archive, then it is allowed even if you
> changed the packaging format from tar.gz to format, which is more
> suitable for your Linux distribution. So yes, your redistribution
> approach is OK." 

Well, exactly the same set of files will not suit a package:
- we add a .PKGINFO file
- we move around files (seems allowed though)
- we don't distribute the Makefile and rar_static



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