Re: Is legal mention packages that aren't in Fedora repos ?

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On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 7:49 AM, Igor Gnatenko
<ignatenkobrain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-01-02 at 10:50 +0000, Sérgio Basto wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Before commit it and push, I'd like have clearance, that is not
>> breaking any legal police of Fedora .
>>
>> We have mlt in Fedora repos and mlt-freeworld but it is complex debug
>> it, so I'd like have one rpm spec file with some conditional macros and
>> where is possible build the complete package and but just build the
>> legal part on Fedora [1] , do you see any legal problem ?
>
> IANAL, but I think "just mentioning & adding conditionals" is fine as long as
> source code itself doesn't have patented stuff and so on.
>

As far as I know, it's fine. Chromium does it, for example. It has a
giant warning in the spec that the conditional should never be enabled
for Fedora builds, but it's there.

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