[aur-general] [arch-dev-public] skype in [community]

[Roman Kyrylych]

2008/6/22 Alessio Bolognino <themolok.ml at gmail.com>:
> On Sat 2008-06-21 20:53, Jaroslaw Swierczynski wrote:
>> 2008/6/21 Pierre Schmitz <pierre at archlinux.de>:
>> >
>> > What exactly does this permission include? Is it only a permission for you or
>> > is the whole Arch Linux project including all mirrors, devs and tus are
>> > allowed to distribute it? Perhaps you could attach what you got from skype to
>> > make things clear.
>>
>> My original request was:
>>
>> "I represent the community of Arch Linux distribution. I'm interested
>> in making package with Skype (ie. repacking original tarball to fit
>> our FHS and be installable by our package manager). (...)"
>>
>> When they agreed, I sent another mail with links to CVS entries and
>> the package on Arch's server. They said it was all fine. Does it seem
>> sufficient to you?
>
> You could put the email with the permission in
> /usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/
>
> I think I did the same with sopcast (now maintainer by voidnull)
>

Hmm... Nice idea!
IIRC we've got permission to redistribute VirtualBox guest additions ISO,
so the same can be applied to that package.
I don't remember who's got the answer from Innotek though.

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Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)