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

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On Tue, 2018-01-02 at 08:54 -0500, Neal Gompa wrote:
> 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.

OK, many thanks for the answers.

Cheers,
-- 
Sérgio M. B.
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