On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 9:04 AM, Tom Callaway wrote: > On 12/18/2011 04:46 AM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> I have been surprised that - despite their prominence - projects like >> VirtualBox and Chrome (the open source version, built directly from >> Chromium) have not been packaged for Fedora. I might be interested in >> doing this, and just wanted to know if there are any legal hurdles to it >> being done, in case that is the reason it has not been done yet? > > WRT Chromium, I have a Fedora package in a personal repo here: > > http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/spot/chromium-stable/fedora-16/SRPMS/ > > Unmodified, the bundled copy of ffmpeg would be a legal blocker for > Chromium, but that package has the ffmpeg implementation separated out > and all the legally troublesome material removed. The debian chromium package uses system libraries (including ffmpeg). You could take a look at the debian/rules file in the package to see how that's done, and possibly use that to create a fedora port: http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/chromium-browser.html > The reasons why that package is not in Fedora proper are documented here: > > http://spot.livejournal.com/312320.html Debian backports security fixes to the 6.x branch. Perhaps it would be fortuitous to work together on a jointly supportable chromium "stable" version across distros as is done for "LTS" kernels now. Best wishes, Mike _______________________________________________ legal mailing list legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/legal
