On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 11:43:37AM +0200, Dieter Baron wrote:
>   What I see need for is:
> 
>   - We can distribute it for free, via ftp or on CDs we give away.
>   - We can distribute it for a fee, like selling CDs.
> 
>   Do you see any other uses we need to differentiate?
> 
>   What do you think of the variable names CAN_DISTRIBUTE_SRC,
> CAN_DISTRIBUTE_PKG, CAN_SELL_SRC, CAN_SELL_PKG?

The three use cases I can think of and would distinguish are:
- can be put on public FTP server
- can be put on free CD
- can be sold
- manual override for individual licenses

Based on that CAN_DISTRIBUTE_SRC and CAN_DISTRIBUTE_PKG are set.
So the bulk builder does "DISTRIBUTION_PROFILE=non-commercial-cd"
and gets that set.

>   First, what exactly are non-commercial packages?  Packages allowed
> for non-commercial use only?  Restrictions on use should play no role
> in what we upload to nbftp, nor what we put on (official) CDs.

I think most non-commercial-use package would also prohibit official
for-money CDs. That's why I distinguish so above.

>   Then I veto the switch to lesstif.  I don't want to ship non-working
> binary packages, and that might well be the result.

Not shipping a PDF viewer for example is worse. Let me put it this way,
below is a list of all Motif packages. Most of them have actual
maintainers, so it should be possible to get them tested :-)

Interest?

Joerg

x11/Xbae
x11/XmHTML
x11/mxterm
x11/xephem
audio/xanalyser
audio/xmcd
audio/xmmix
audio/xmradio
biology/azara
cad/dinotrace
cad/electric
databases/sqsh-motif
devel/ddd
editors/nedit
editors/ted
editors/vim-motif
finance/xinvest
fonts/xmbdfed
games/imaze
graphics/Ngraph
graphics/dx
graphics/geomview
graphics/pixmap
math/xmgr
misc/xrolodex
misc/yrolo
net/llnlxdir
net/llnlxftp
net/xmftp
parallel/sge
print/mgv
print/xpdf
sysutils/xps
textproc/stardic
time/catclock
time/plan
www/mMosaic