[aur-general] TU membership application

Jean Lucas jean at 4ray.co
Mon Aug 19 05:38:42 UTC 2019


On Sun, 2019-08-18 at 17:56 +0200, David Runge wrote:
> On 2019-08-16 17:10:41 (-0400), Jean Lucas via aur-general wrote:
> > I would definitely be willing to very politely ask the five
> > respective
> > companies for redistribution permissions for Arch Linux.
> In the case of reaper, I've already been in contact with Cockos to
> try
> and move that to [community] and they didn't reply to multiple
> requests
> through several channels.
> On its own, I have not been able to make sense out of the OEM
> distribution license [1] for that matter either.
> "... but I'm not a lawyer (TM)."
> 
> Best,
> David
> 
> [1] https://www.reaper.fm/dist-agreement.php
> 

Yeah the legalese is a bit hard to interpret, its much better to get a
clear answer from them directly, and have them explicitly add a
redistribution-by-linux-distros-ok clause to the license, like Valve
did with Steam. I suppose more people could contact them to see if
they'll budge.
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