The grand IPK sharing thread
 

Hi
As there's a lot of free apps for Palm Pres and HP Touchpads. Unfortunately, not everyone of us (including me) can afford a Touchpad and Pres are not available in every country. With WebOS it's not that easy as with Maemo: it's hard to get apps w/o the device.
Therefore I make this thread. I'd like it to work just like the absolutepunk.net b-sides thread.
Rules:

1. Only free apps (so we won't break the law)
2. Only PDK (C/C++) apps (exception: porting)
3. [REQUIRED] You have to mention the download page on developer.palm.com!
4. If possible, use .ipk or .tar.* (for example .tar.gz) - zip may be causing problems (Segmentation fault)
5. Please preserve the layout when adding, as in example [below]

Example entry
Explanations of fields:
Name: here put the human readable name and the name used by ipk
Platform: Pre/Touchpad (indicates whether libsdlpre-tab.so is required)
Keyboard mapping: yes (required) / optional (useful) / no (unneeded)
Keyboard mapping presets aka gconf sh script: If possible, please provide the keyboard mapping script.
Download: where the ipk is uploaded

How to grab ipks: http://touchpadfans.blogspot.com/201...d-from-hp.html
http://forum.mobilism.org/viewtopic.php?f=567&t=141427
http://www.webosbuzz.com/content/176...bos-phone.html

Suggested servers: these give good download speed:
1) MediaFire.com (advised)
2) 4shared.com
3) ifolder.ru/narod.ru
Please do not upload to those:
1) rapidshare.com (very slow)
2) turbobit.net (unsupported by JDownloader)

Re: The grand IPK sharing thread
 

Why pointing out "Only free apps (so we won't break the law)", when you directly link to Buzz and Mobilism? Link to FuzzyPalm and 115pda too, then everything is complete.

Re: The grand IPK sharing thread
 

I've just found some tutorials how to do it.
Uploading and sharing links to paid apps would break the forum's rules.
If you've got some better tutorials or on better sites, go on, show me those.
Talk.maemo.org terms of use:
So I have to say that only free apps.

Re: The grand IPK sharing thread
 

Wouldn't it be better to update the Wiki? http://wiki.maemo.org/Preenv

And out of interest, what makes this thread "grand"?

Re: The grand IPK sharing thread
 

I don't think so. There's a lot of free apps for WebOS, and I don't know any way of downloading this without the HP App Catalog if you're in an unsupported country, such as Poland

I hope it'll become a total place of exchange of free apps, as the absolutepunk.net b-sides thread is a total place of exchanging b-sides

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ALRIGHT, let's start doing what this thread is for :D

Has anybody got the free Angry Birds HD (for Touchpad)?
https://developer.palm.com/appredire...o.angrybirdshd

Thanks in advance

Re: The grand IPK sharing thread
 

Angrybirds HD
https://rapidshare.com/files/1721626...dshd_1.5.3.zip
I use this for a long time ago and it works ok.

https://developer.palm.com/appredire...o.angrybirdshd

Re: The grand IPK sharing thread
 

Beware that these files might be free of charge, but that doesn't mean you are free to distribute them, so I would suggest to close this thread and eliminate those links before we receive any C&D from HP or the legally owners of the software.

Re: The grand IPK sharing thread
 

OK, thanks. I'll make sure there will be no problems and then maybe this thread will be revived.

Re: The grand IPK sharing thread
 

If you contain all info that is shown on dl page in webos you should be covered. At least 99% free lincenses allow redistribution as long as no modification took place and you provide same info as was available on orig dl.

Re: The grand IPK sharing thread
 

It goes about such software as Angry Birds which for Touchpad is free but for Maemo not.

I think the uploading should be temporarily frozen and we should discuss the guidelines so we wont have any problems.
I'll ask an acquaintance lawyer about it tomorrow and will post what she says

Re: The grand IPK sharing thread
 

If you run it fully (covering in-prog ads) there should not be a problem (or running hacked/rooted os would also be). If you get all functionality on different hw, who cares? It is available for dl at one place or another (unless the place was living from ads, but can't imagine ovi store living of ads, or the webos marketplace doing it). No value lost, more users (possible income), single 'free' devs/authors opposing could be just removed

Re: The grand IPK sharing thread
 

My acquaintance lawyer says it should be legal. (not 100% but should be). So says my another friend who is into IT.
I think this thread should be no more frozen.
I think we'll follow the szopin's idea.
And one more restriction: upload HAS TO mention the original download page!

Re: The grand IPK sharing thread
 

Take a look at any 'free' (open source) license. If you're not changing the code you are free to distribute, just keep the license with it. Repackaging something for maemo and keeping to those steps is 100% legally ok. Take a look at pandora. Guys are repackaging things like (http://boards.openpandora.org/index....in-first-post/) where license clearly states:

You may freely use, modify, and distribute both the FB Alpha source code and binary, however the following restrictions apply to the FB Alpha original material (see below for a list of libraries with differing licenses, please consult their respective documentation for more information):

* You may not sell, lease, rent or otherwise seek to gain monetary profit from FB Alpha;
* You must make public any changes you make to the source code;
* You must include, verbatim, the full text of this license...

So, pandora guys are explicitly breaking it making only binaries of modified code available. If they got the code out we would have the same goodies, but nevermind the license. Maemo community at least respects authors' wishes.

Re: The grand IPK sharing thread
 

I may have a bit free time this month.
If I had a chess.com app (>=1.2.5) I could try to do a little porting. Maybe MicroB / Chromium will be able to use mojo

EDIT: I found v1.0.1
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?mfgozyynjz0

Re: The grand IPK sharing thread
 

sorry to revive this thread, is it possible to have a mirror to this file? the link is now dead.
thank you so much