On Fri, 2024-02-09 at 16:53 +0000, Gary Buhrmaster wrote: > On Fri, Feb 9, 2024 at 4:23 PM Sérgio Basto <sergio@xxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I'd like to bring to your attention that Fedora would benefit with > > update of exiv2 [1] and protobuf [2] but these packages have lots > > of > > dependencies and the update of the dependent packages is not > > trivial . > > tips, ideas and opinions ? to do these soname updates > > > > While understandably annoying, last I knew the patent > issue IRT BMFF was not yet resolved for exiv2 (waiting > on RH legal). As I understand it, once the issue is raised, > one is required to wait for a formal decision to be made, > and there no time frame for that to occur. > > If you are willing to strip the sources of the BMFF support > until such time as a decision as to whether to allow it > to be included is made that should be a way forward > more quickly. "In order to update Exiv2, we need to know if this is okay to enable BMFF support. Patents have theorically expired and it is enabled by default in the latest version." until isn't clear by legal it should be disabled , if default is enable ,we should disable it and move on , it is not a show stopper -- Sérgio M. B. -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
