mplayer vs. xine

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le sam, 31/01/2004 à 16:25 -0500, Eric S. Raymond a écrit :
> Peter Backlund <peter.backlund at home.se>:

> > 3. The JPackage project do not supply binaries of Sun's JDK/JRE (or any 
> > other JRE for that matter), but only src.rpm version, where you download 
> > the JDK/JRE and rebuild the binary rpm yourself. I simply assume that 
> > they have looked into the distribution situation quite carefully.
> 
> If yum can install SRPMS this doesn't seem like a problem.

Actually, it's worse than that.
For all the stuff we're not sure of (cryptography, form-to-download,
etc) we are distributing .nosrc.rpms.

These are basically wrappers that can be used to convert an archive of
binary files into a proper package. To get a working rpm people have to
download the restricted binary on the original site, put in their
SOURCES dir and do a rpm --rebuild of the nosrc.

We've repeatedly asked for permissions to redistribute stuff, even
proposed to have our packages hosted on the vendor sites behind their
click-through forms, but so far no one dared to accept this.

Since no one in the team feels like spending time in the courtroom
(devoting our free time to the project is far enough) we're playing it
sure.

However the bulk of the repo is free oss stuff (jakarta, jboss,
objectweb, etc). But to use this one has to re-wrap a few critical
pieces like the jvm. Most of this will probably gcjed mid-term if there
is no resolution on the jvm legal front. gcj is slowly getting there.

Cheers,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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