Re: Best practices for downloader packages
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 01:29:12PM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote:
> >> * Since the download code if DFSG-Free, the downloader goes to
> >> contrib, independently of the copyright of the data, right?
> >
> > Right.
>
> .... which is a bit pity, since the package *is* actually DFSG-free,
> including the downloaded data. The reason that they are not in the
> Debian archive is just a technical, not a license one: The source data
> size is about 8 GB, and the binary packages are from 160 MB to ~13 GB.
As, unlike most downloaders, it doesn't deal with non-free data, I don't get
why it would be unacceptable for main. It's strictly better than clients
for various proprietary services, which sit in main.
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(https://github.com/kilobyte/braillefont for this hack)
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