Wine Gecko packaging

[Scott Ritchie]

Jacek Caban wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> As you probably have noticed, downloading Gecko on first use confuses
> users. Now, with last week patches, there is an other way to do it,
> transparent for users. MSHTML code looks for cab file in $data_dir/gecko
> (that is usually /usr/share/wine/gecko). Alternatively, if you run Wine
> from build dir, it looks for $build_dir/../gecko. Wine checks it both in
> wineprefixcreate and, if Gecko is not installed, on first usage. It
> means that if you download wine_gecko-0.1.0.cab from SourceForge and put
> it in the right place, you will no longer have to care about installing
> Gecko.
> 
> Now, it's time to consider Linux packages to simplify its use. In Gentoo
> it may be a separate USE flag, but for other distributions that don't
> support such things, we'll need a separate package. Such package will
> need only one file placed in the right place, so it should be easy to do
> and maintain (I don't expect versions to change often). Are Wine
> packagers interested in creating Gecko packages?
> 

What license is the gecko package under?  Can I just bundle it with the
Wine package and have it work out of the box?

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie