[aur-general] Request to add a rule

[Sven-Hendrik Haase]

Peter Lewis <plewis at aur.archlinux.org> wrote:

>On Thu, 27 Oct 2011, Christopher luna wrote:
>
>> This is (again) about forbidding urls to warez on pkgbuilds on AUR. 
>
>Hi. Please don't break threads though by starting new ones.
>
>
>> probably you people have seen the discussion on the forum.
>> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=128832
>> 
>> But is not going anyware. 
>> Now, I think ewaller, hitted the nail in the head when said: 
>> 
>> "If you don't have explicit permission to copy and distribute, you
>may not copy and distribute. Period."
>> 
>> I think something as easy like that would solve it all.
>
>I don't think so, since AUR packages do not distribute code.
>
>Take a look at my cedega package for one approach:
>
>http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ce/cedega/PKGBUILD
>
>but this is probably overkill for most cases.
>
>Just do what Ionut suggested earlier, put the name of the downloaded
>file in the
>source array, but without the URL, so that users have to already have
>or
>download the file themselves before running makepkg.
>
>Putting a rule to this effect for any/all non-free software would make
>sense to
>me.
>
>Pete.

I don't see the point. AUR packages do not redistribute anything. They contain URLs themselves.

-- Sven-Hendrik