Octave-forge and legal issues

[Quentin Spencer]

Matthias Saou wrote:

>Quentin Spencer wrote :
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>>2. Create a modified source tarball with the offending code removed. 
>>This would be easy, but the source wouldn't match the upstream source.
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>This has already been done for some packages (e.g. xmms, gstreamer-
>plugins), and AFAIK is acceptable. Ideally, include as one of the
>"SourceX:" lines a quick little script that can reproduce the modified
>tarball from the original one (uncompress the original tarball, remove
>this and that, recompress with the new tarball name).
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>Matthias
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OK, what about this:

Source0:        
ftp://download.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/o/oc/octave/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
Source1:        %{name}-%{version}.patched.tar.gz
Source2:        %{name}-mktarball.sh
NoSource:       0

....

%prep
%setup -q -T -b 1


The octave-forge-mktarball.sh does basically what you described. I'm not 
familiar with the use of NoSource--I figured this out just now from 
Maximum RPM. Is this the right approach? I haven't built the whole 
package, but this seems do to what I want.

-Quentin