request: can somebody please port googleearth-package to fedora?

[Andrew Farris]

Christopher Brown wrote:
> On 07/02/2008, Douglas McClendon <dmc.fedora at filteredperception.org> wrote:
>> Christopher Brown wrote:
>>> On 07/02/2008, Douglas McClendon <dmc.fedora at filteredperception.org> wrote:
>>>> I've been meaning to do this myself for a long time, but I've just got a
>>>> lot of other higher priorities.  I don't suppose I could implore someone
>>>> else into doing the work for me?  Shouldn't be real hard.
>>>>
>>>> Wouldn't it be cool to be able to append a teeny little kickstart
>>>> postscript, and then end up with a livecd or system that has GE
>>>> installed for all users?
>>>>
>>>> http://packages.debian.org/etch/googleearth-package
>>> It doesn't have an open source license so can't be included in Fedora
>>> of course. Which makes it OT for this list IMO.
>> I suspect this is a point you understand, but for the sake of clarity
>> I'll highlight-
>>
>> The "googleearth-package" package/.deb/[theoretical .rpm], absolutely
>> DOES have an open source license.
>>
>> What the _tool_ that it _provides_, does, is to generate a
>> non-open-source rpm from a simple commandline invocation and network access.
>>
>> Please, it's fine if you don't want to be the one to do this, but from a
>> legal and open-source perspective, I think that
>> googleearth-package*.[s]rpm belongs in fedora just as much as the
>> current .deb belongs in debian.
> 
> 
> Yeah, I got the inference. qv. the script that downloads restricted
> content on the Fedora Games DVD. So why don't we package a script that
> configures the nvidia binary driver?

Well I don't know why you couldn't, but I think what livna is doing in this area 
is a superior solution anyway.

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