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omni

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PKGBUILD including source with special license

If i upload a PKGBUILD where the resulting package includes FDKAAC ( license) is that against copyright?
distribution is permitted but the PKGBUILD is not a distributed package, everyone is building from source... but i am not an expert in reading and understanding licenses.

is it correct/enough to install the license in /usr/share/doc ?

thanks   Jan

Slithery

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Re: PKGBUILD including source with special license

is it correct/enough to install the license in /usr/share/doc ?

Yep. That's fine.

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mpan

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Re: PKGBUILD including source with special license

omni:
See there relevant section on “license” in PKGBUILD. In particular:

Install the license in: /usr/share/licenses/pkgname/, e.g. /usr/share/licenses/foobar/LICENSE.

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Re: PKGBUILD including source with special license

If i upload a PKGBUILD where the resulting package includes FDKAAC ( license) is that against copyright?
distribution is permitted but the PKGBUILD is not a distributed package, everyone is building from source... but i am not an expert in reading and understanding licenses.

It says the following:

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted without
payment of copyright license fees provided that you satisfy the following conditions

[conditions follow]

So, yes, if you follow the conditions mentioned, you can distribute it even in source form.

omni

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Re: PKGBUILD including source with special license

thx