Hi Fedora Legal, Back in Januari this year we (the Fedora MinGW SIG) filed a review request for various packages belonging to the mingw-w64 cross compiler toolchain. This was done because we want to add support for cross-compiling binaries for the win64 target in Fedora. We made two of these packages (mingw-headers [1] and mingw-crt [2]) block FE-LEGAL as we received some signals in the past that a legal audit should be done for these packages. We are not entirely sure if such a legal audit is really necessary but in order to play it safe we wanted someone from FE-LEGAL/RH-LEGAL to take a look at it. Earlier this year, one of the lead mingw-w64 developers was hired by Red Hat. With this step we (the Fedora MinGW SIG) expected that the legal issues would get sorted out soon, but unfortunately there's still no news. This mingw-w64 developer has tried to contact RH-LEGAL multiple times, but he kept getting the answer from the lawyer that other more important issues got between. As there have already passed about 10 months since the initial request we're getting a bit frustrated with the situation as we still don't know how long this legal approval is going to take. All other preparations for the introduction of the mingw-w64 toolchain are already done. We've updated our packaging guidelines [3] and got them approved by the FPC [4]. We've already ported about 75 mingw32 packages to use these new packaging guidelines [5] and have been testing everything in a separate yum repo [6] for the time being. As you can see we have to maintain the mingw packages in two different places at the moment. Once in the Fedora repos and once in the testing repo. As this is quite a maintenance burden to keep everything in sync we would like to merge all changes from the mingw-w64 testing repo back to the Fedora repos sooner than later. The only thing which is blocking is from going forward right now is the legal approval. We are currently aiming for Fedora 17 to introduce the mingw-w64 toolchain. This means that the legal approval has to be done before the F17 feature submission deadline which is at the end of Januari 2012 [7]. Is there anything we can do to help speed up the legal approval? Kind regards, Erik van Pienbroek Fedora MinGW SIG [1]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673790 [2]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673792 [3]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:MinGW_Future [4]: https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/71 [5]: http://svn.openftd.org/svn/fedora_cross/ [6]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW/CrossCompilerFramework [7]: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/17/Schedule _______________________________________________ legal mailing list legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/legal
