Well lets look at this as we move forward, personally I don't think investing time and money into having a full Windows and MacOS X harness hosted by Fedora is a good use of time or money and the so called 'legal' issues seemed rather random. Christian ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jiri Eischmann" <eischmann@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: "Discussions about development for the Fedora desktop" <desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Friday, April 22, 2016 3:22:10 PM > Subject: The status of Fedora Media Writer: postponed to F25 > > Hi, > update here: > Fedora Media Writer as a primary downloadable was postponed to F25 for > building and mainly legal reasons, logs from the FESCo meeting: > https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2016-04-22/fesco.2016- > 04-22-17.00.log.html > It turned out that distributing a Windows build is a difficult task to > do for Fedora. So for Fedora 24, Martin will be distributing the > Windows version himself and we will at least link to it as recommended > option on the wiki the same way we did for the old LUC. > For F25 we're very inclined to just completely rewrite it to Qt/C++ > because: > 1. the current codebase is hard to maintain, > 2. it would simplify building and legal review of the Windows version, > 3. it would allow us to do the Mac port. > > Jiri > -- > desktop mailing list > desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
