Purebasic and Debian/Ubuntu Respositories

Post by **freak** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 11:21 pm

The compiler is the same on all Platforms. Also some of the libs are shared (some in part and some fully).
An open sourced linux version would make selling versions for other systems quite pointless.

Btw, the Open Source Definition (which is a main criteria for getting into such repositories)
clearly states that "Intermediate forms such as the output of a preprocessor or translator" are
not allowed as sourcecode. ( http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php )
This includes the asm output of the PB Compiler. So this would not help you either.

Brujah · Post by **Brujah** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 1:47 pm

I just uploaded my game to the ubuntu universe review page. I hope the motu's will accept it. Then my problem would be solved without open sourcing the compiler. The universe repository would be perfectely fine for me.

Will let you know!

Nik · Post by **Nik** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 4:47 pm

Well I see... even if you don't get into the repositries, you can distribute it as a dpkg, another possility though a bit advanced would be to setup an apt-source for Purebasic Freeware, than you could always publish the URL of this source, adding it to /etc/apt/sources.list would then make all these packages available to apt and synaptic.

Beach · Post by **Beach** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 7:36 pm

Nik wrote:Well I see... even if you don't get into the repositiries, you can distribute it as a dpkg, another possility though a bit advanced would be to setup an apt-source for Purebasic Freeware, than you could always publish the URL of this source, adding it to /etc/apt/sources.list would then make all these packages available to apt and synaptic.

We should do that - I have the server space and a custom PHP app that would make updating easy (PureStorage).

Brujah · Post by **Brujah** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 8:03 pm

Finde ich auch eine gute Idee!
Und dann kopieren wir da alle Programme drauf die das selbe Problem haben. Gibts ja bestimmt noch 1 oder 2

Nik · Post by **Nik** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 8:16 pm

Well I can provide Server Space too, does anybody know how to create an apt repositry?

Edit: this might help (German)
http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Lokale_Paketquellen

thamarok · Post by **thamarok** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 1:11 pm

Brujah wrote:I just uploaded my game to the ubuntu universe review page. I hope the motu's will accept it. Then my problem would be solved without open sourcing the compiler. The universe repository would be perfectely fine for me.

Will let you know!

By the way, doesn't PureBasic output assembly code with the /COMMENTED switch?
If so, you could take the assembly code and publish it; this way you won't need to opensource the PureBasic compiler. And Flat Assembler is free as in freedom for everyone. :roll:

Nik · Post by **Nik** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 3:16 pm

Freak

Btw, the Open Source Definition (which is a main criteria for getting into such repositories)
clearly states that "Intermediate forms such as the output of a preprocessor or translator" are
not allowed as sourcecode. ( http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php )
This includes the asm output of the PB Compiler. So this would not help you either.

thamarok · Post by **thamarok** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 8:25 am

Nik wrote:Freak
Btw, the Open Source Definition (which is a main criteria for getting into such repositories)
clearly states that "Intermediate forms such as the output of a preprocessor or translator" are
not allowed as sourcecode. ( http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php )
This includes the asm output of the PB Compiler. So this would not help you either.

Oh, I didn't see that. This is too bad. I just wanted to release a program called MineEditor. The idea of MineEditor was to be opensource, but now when reading what Freak said, I can't publish it.
MineEditor is a simple text editor with some little functions, such as line numbering etc.. It should be a replacement to the Scintilla gadget, but written in PureBasic. I can however post parts of the PureBasic source code some day.

Post by **freak** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 2:29 pm

thamarok:
I think you misunderstood this. I was only talking about the debian/ubuntu repositories.
Nobody can stop you from releasing anything as open source.
The Open Source Definition is just that, a definition. It has no legal binding,
as "Open Source" is not a trademark.

thamarok · Post by **thamarok** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 11:26 am

Yes, now it makes sense

I misunderstood you totally

Brujah · Post by **Brujah** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 12:57 pm

It seems that I will get into the universe repo of ubutntu soon. Its a long way to achieve this...
Has anybody suceeded yet in setting the apt server up?
(Would also be a nice solution

Trond · Post by **Trond** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 1:08 pm

Linux substitutes vendor lock-in with vendor lock-out.