Am Tue, 9 Jun 2009 12:59:15 +0200 schrieb Xyne <[email protected]>: > Are there any packages in the official repos that are distributed > under the same conditions? I expect that the Arch devs would be > reluctant to maintain a portfolio of agreements with various > developers granting Arch the right to distribute their work. Perhaps > that could be left to the package maintainer but I think they would > still be on the line as the official distributors of the packages. I > don't really know who bears ultimate responsibility though. > > I think it would actually make more sense to provide a trusted version > of the AUR with a subset of packages from the AUR that the user could > install with the same confidence as the official packages. This would > be ideal for avoiding many legal pitfalls but opponents of the idea > will simply say that the AUR already does this and that all you need > to do is check the PKGBUILD and install scripts yourself.
I didn't want to say, that this package has to be moved to community. I just wanted to say, that it's not impossible, because someone has written, that these fonts may not be distributed. ;-) It's of course sufficient to keep font packages in AUR, especially because there's nothing to compile. A second "trusted" AUR makes not really sense in my eyes. This would make the whole thing more complicated. I think the repos and AUR are ok as they are now. Btw., there was a feature in AUR which TUs could use to mark a PKGBUILD as trusted. I guess there were some reasons, why this feature was removed. Heiko
