Hello, can you help me with my question? Sorry, I am new here… How can I add a non-free software (proprietary, but free of charge) to a public SUSE repository? Is there any possibility to add it online from OpenSUSE site or have I to do it directly from my installed OS (debian)? Many thanks in advance for your advices!
FreeVariCAD wrote:
> Hello, can you help me with my question? Sorry, I am new here… How
> can I add a non-free software (proprietary, but free of charge) to a
> public SUSE repository? Is there any possibility to add it online from
> OpenSUSE site or have I to do it directly from my installed OS
> (debian)? Many thanks in advance for your advices!
Do you mean that you want to install some non-free software on your
computer?
Or do you mean you want to place some non-free software in a public
repository so everybody can access it?
It would also probably help if you told us what the software is.
AFAIK you can’t. You can start your own repository on the Build Service ( and build for other distro’s at the same time) but I don’t know what the policy is towards proprietary software in openSUSE’s repo.
On 06/07/2013 01:56 PM, Knurpht wrote:
> I don’t know what
> the policy is towards proprietary software in openSUSE’s repo.
i think you do know…or maybe i don’t understand the question!!
but i think proprietary software is non-open source software
whether it is distributed without cost or not…well, i guess a
proprietary software owner could publish the source and tell people
not to change it, but then it wouldn’t meet the GNU license and i do
not think it could correctly be called ‘open source’…
and since the open in openSUSE means open source, proprietary
software will not be in openSUSE repos. (right?)
it can be in packman, however…but, i do not know how they determine
the need for any particular app/utility/etc… they can tell you:
http://packman.links2linux.org/
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dd
On 2013-06-07 14:27, dd wrote:
> but i think proprietary software is non-open source software whether
> it is distributed without cost or not…well, i guess a proprietary
> software owner could publish the source and tell people not to change
> it, but then it wouldn’t meet the GNU license and i do not think it
> could correctly be called ‘open source’…
>
> and since the open in openSUSE means open source, proprietary software
> will not be in openSUSE repos. (right?)
It is more complex than that.
You see, some proprietary software is distributed from our repos, the
non-oss repo rather. It needs to have a redistributable license, plus it
must not break the GPL or other open licenses that may be affected.
Thus, acroread or flash are there, but the nvidia driver is not.
Alternatively, an opensource package in the OBS may have a script to
download a proprietary package hosted somewhere else.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
> more complex than that
ok…
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dd
On 2013-06-08 10:49, dd wrote:
>> more complex than that
>
> ok…
In practical terms, it must be checked by the legal team 
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)