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== Proposal: == | == Proposal: == | ||
=== Part 1 === | === Part 1 === | ||
- | Create a section of the site that can only be accessed through a unique token. Users would be able to access this section of the site by submitting a serial number that uniquely identifies their device (such as the WLAN MAC address or BT MAC address) and then agreeing to an EULA. This serial number would be used to generate a permanent token (maybe an MD5 hash) that they could use to download files that are only licensed to be distributed to people who own such a device. | + | Create a section of the site that can only be accessed through a unique token. Users would be able to access this section of the site by submitting a serial number that uniquely identifies their device (such as the WLAN MAC address or BT MAC address) and then agreeing to an EULA. This serial number would be used to generate a permanent token (maybe an MD5 hash) that they could use to download files that are only licensed to be distributed to people who own such a device. If the token generated for the user was "SDFKJSDFHDSF" then the structure of the URL would (conceptually) look something like this: http://maemo.org/hw_vendor-closed/N800/SDFKJSDFHDSF/N8x0-3D-drivers.tar.gz |
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- | If the token generated for the user was "SDFKJSDFHDSF" then the structure of the URL would (conceptually) look something like this: http://maemo.org/hw_vendor-closed/N800/SDFKJSDFHDSF/N8x0-3D-drivers.tar.gz | + | |
=== Part 2 === | === Part 2 === | ||
Allow developers to distribute complete OS images that include the hardware vendor's "closed" binaries, by letting them upload these images to a subsection of the "token protected" area of the site. If necessary, users could request their own subsection, under which they could create as many sub-directories as necessary, and this could be granted on a case by case basis by someone inside the hardware vendor. If Alice (the developer mentioned above) uploads a new image of her distribution to her own section, the resulting URL for that image could look something like this: http://maemo.org/hw_vendor-closed/N800/SDFKJSDFHDSF/~Alice/AD1/AlternateDistro.img | Allow developers to distribute complete OS images that include the hardware vendor's "closed" binaries, by letting them upload these images to a subsection of the "token protected" area of the site. If necessary, users could request their own subsection, under which they could create as many sub-directories as necessary, and this could be granted on a case by case basis by someone inside the hardware vendor. If Alice (the developer mentioned above) uploads a new image of her distribution to her own section, the resulting URL for that image could look something like this: http://maemo.org/hw_vendor-closed/N800/SDFKJSDFHDSF/~Alice/AD1/AlternateDistro.img | ||
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