[aur-general] TU membership application

[Jean Lucas]

On Fri, 2019-08-16 at 22:40 +0200, Sven-Hendrik Haase via aur-general
wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Aug 2019 at 22:35, Oscar <spacepluk at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I'm currently maintaining unity-editor and unityhub and I don't
> > think they
> > will allow redistribution of binaries.
> > 
> > They even dropped the official Ubuntu packages in favor of their
> > custom
> > installers. And honestly it makes more sense to do it this way
> > because the
> > engine is a big self contained blob and users usually need to have
> > several
> > different versions installed at the same time to patch old projects
> > etc.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, Aug 16, 2019, 22:20 Sven-Hendrik Haase via aur-general <
> > aur-general at archlinux.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Fri, Aug 16, 2019, 22:06 Balló György via aur-general <
> > > aur-general at archlinux.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > 2019. 08.  16, péntek keltezéssel 15.19-kor Jean Lucas via aur-
> > > > general
> > > > ezt írta:
> > > > > If I were accepted to become a TU, I'd like to adopt and move
> > > > > the
> > > > > following packages (all having over 10 votes in the AUR) from
> > > > > the AUR
> > > > > into [community]:
> > > > > 
> > > > > anydesk, downgrade, exercism, flutter, godot, itch,
> > > > > mattermost-
> > > > > desktop,
> > > > > nvm, reaper, spotify, teamviewer, thermald, unity-editor, and
> > > > > unityhub,
> > > > > for starters!
> > > > 
> > > > anydesk, reaper, spotify, teamviewer, unity-editor and unityhub
> > > > are
> > > > proprietary software with restrictive license. I don't think
> > > > that you
> > > > can legally distribute them.
> > > > 
> > > > --
> > > > György Balló
> > > > Trusted User
> > > 
> > > Well, you can always ask upstream. So far, we received exceptions
> > > for
> > > redistribution of more software than we got rejections for, I
> > > think.
> > > 
> Never hurts to ask. :)
> 
> Asking should also be done in the case of all the packages Jean
> mentioned.

I would definitely be willing to very politely ask the five respective
companies for redistribution permissions for Arch Linux.
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