[aur-general] Request to add a rule

Karol Blazewicz karol.blazewicz at gmail.com
Fri Oct 28 08:20:03 EDT 2011


On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 13:39, Sven-Hendrik Haase <sh at lutzhaase.com> wrote:
>> Peter Lewis <plewis at aur.archlinux.org> wrote:
> [...]
>> I don't see the point. AUR packages do not redistribute anything. They contain URLs themselves.
>
> I'm guessing the point would be that there have been several legal
> cases brought against people involved in distributing URLs to material
> that can't be freely distributed itself.
>
> /M

Is AUR hosted in Canada, US or Bahamas?
I think it's OK to provide an installer w/o any kind of link to the
proprietary package. It can provide a launcher or whatever.


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