Re: packaging an application that phones home

2010-01-26 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 18:46:32 -0800, Eric Smith wrote: > > The Licenses page of the MeshLab wiki gives a privacy disclaimer stating > that it phones home periodically to check for availability of updated > versions, and that it uploads some aggregated statistical data about the Updates s

Re: packaging an application that phones home

2010-01-26 Thread Eric Smith
> [my question about MeshLab phoning home] It turns out that the Debian folks had this same issue, and the developer added a compile-time option __DISABLE_AUTO_STATS__ for that reason. I'll define that in my spec file, so I expect that there should be no issue. Given that they want the stats

packaging an application that phones home

2010-01-26 Thread Eric Smith
I'm working on an RPM package for MeshLab, a GPL'd program for processing unstructured 3D triangular meshes: http://meshlab.sourceforge.net/ My interest is that it is useful with 3D printers, e.g. RepRap, MakerBot, or even commercial printers. The Licenses page of the MeshLab wiki gives a