My upstream source contains .gif files that are not essential. If I delete these file and never use them, can I use this tarball as my pristine source, or must I resource?
Thank You.
P.S. there are a lot of complicated rules to create a package.
"PE" == Paul Elliott pelliott@blackpatchpanel.com writes:
PE> My upstream source contains .gif files that are not essential. If I PE> delete these file and never use them, can I use this tarball as my PE> pristine source, or must I resource?
Why do you think you would need to do so? Are those files under a license that is not acceptable for Fedora?
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On Thursday, March 24, 2011 10:08:00 pm Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
"PE" == Paul Elliott pelliott@blackpatchpanel.com writes:
PE> My upstream source contains .gif files that are not essential. If I PE> delete these file and never use them, can I use this tarball as my PE> pristine source, or must I resource?
Why do you think you would need to do so? Are those files under a license that is not acceptable for Fedora?
Nevermind, I found out that patent expired.....
On 03/25/2011 06:38 AM, Paul Elliott wrote:
On Thursday, March 24, 2011 10:08:00 pm Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> "PE" == Paul Elliottpelliott@blackpatchpanel.com writes:
PE> My upstream source contains .gif files that are not essential. If I PE> delete these file and never use them, can I use this tarball as my PE> pristine source, or must I resource?
Why do you think you would need to do so? Are those files under a license that is not acceptable for Fedora?
Nevermind, I found out that patent expired.....
Even before the patent expired, I don't think you were prohibited from having GIF files, just to actually make use of them?
Regards,
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 12:29:35PM +0100, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote:
On 03/25/2011 06:38 AM, Paul Elliott wrote:
On Thursday, March 24, 2011 10:08:00 pm Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>> "PE" == Paul Elliottpelliott@blackpatchpanel.com writes:
PE> My upstream source contains .gif files that are not essential. If I PE> delete these file and never use them, can I use this tarball as my PE> pristine source, or must I resource?
Why do you think you would need to do so? Are those files under a license that is not acceptable for Fedora?
Nevermind, I found out that patent expired.....
Even before the patent expired, I don't think you were prohibited from having GIF files, just to actually make use of them?
In particular, to write them. The reading of gif files was not under the unisys patent.
-Toshio
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