[maemo-developers] Is mauku open source, i.e free or is in non-free?

[From: Eduardo Lima (Etrunko)]

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Aniello Del Sorbo <anidel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/1/26 Ryan Abel <rabelg5 at gmail.com>:
>> On Jan 26, 2010, at 4:07 PM, Henrik Hedberg wrote:
>>
>>> Jeremiah Foster wrote:
>>>
>>>> Bug #7505 asks if mauku is open or closed. According to the bug report, it looks pretty closed.
>>> ...
>>>> What should we do here? Move this to non-free?
>>>
>>>   I am very aware of the meaning "free" here. Mauku was uploaded into the free section because there was (is) no non-free repository in Extras. However, the community insisted to close all external repositories and use Extras instead (done that). In addition, Ovi Store was not (is not, it is still beta) available for distribution channel.
>>
>> http://repository.maemo.org/extras/pool/fremantle/non-free/
>
> Thus Mauku should go here, how?
> The microfeed engine should stay in the free section.
>

Back in the days when Canola source code was not available I used to
generate the binary packages using -b option of dpkg-buildpackage(1).
It will then generate only binary files (.deb) and the proper .changes
file.

To upload to extras non-free, you must use dput and edit /etc/dput.cf
accordingly, as described in
http://wiki.maemo.org/Uploading_to_Extras#.22non-free.22_packages.

Don't know the current status of the non-free queue for Fremantle. It
used to work back in the days of Gregale/Bora/Chinook/Diablo.

Best Regards, Etrunko.

-- 
Eduardo de Barros Lima
INdT - Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia
eblima at gmail.com