-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi! I wonder if theses software I'm using or planning to use, could be allowed in Fedora... * libopendaap 0.4.0 - http://craz.net/programs/itunes/libopendaap.html Previous version seems to uses Apple's mDNS library but that's not the case anymore with 0.4.0, maybe there is still a patent issue with it ?! * lsdvd - http://untrepid.com/acidrip/lsdvd.html This BR libdvdread-devel but now libdvdread-devel is within Fedora...lsdvd should be allowed in Fedora also ?! * xmltv - http://xmltv.org/wiki/ package can be found on Axel Thimm's rpms repository . But can we have it within Fedora It can be used at runtime by: * freevo - http://freevo.sourceforge.net This is a multimedia center using python... All necessary build dependencies can be found within Fedora but functionalities can be enhanced at runtime by using others player and tuner apps that can be found on others third part repositories... Runtime apps that can be added : - - from Fedora : tvtime oxine - - from others third part repositories : mplayer xdtv xmltv xmame xine vlc lsdvd mpd smpeg * ivtv-firmware - (and perl scrips if needed) - - ivtv kernel module is bundled within the kernel since 2.6.22 - we might be able to redistribute the firmware as Axel Thimm have made some work about it... * OpenCASCADE - http://www.opencascade.org - Open CASCADE Technology Public License (LGPL compatible ?) The installer used to bundle the package seems to use java 1.6 (sun) but can be repackaged... It will miss the java extension for now...(still testing - Not Required)...All other hard build dependencies requirement can be provided by Fedora. * STLport - http://www.stlport.org/doc/license.html This is a optional build dependency of OpenCASCADE which will make OpenCASCADE built "not supported" by the development team. * omniORB -* *http://omniorb.sourceforge.net/ - Seems to be GPL * SALOME - http://www.salome-platform.org - (claims to be LGPL ) Optional dependency omniORB, and omniORBpy and needs OpenCASCADE (hard BuildRequires) - maybe others... (still in early testing ) * scilab - http://www.scilab.org - Scilab (c)INRIA-ENPC Their own license seems too restrictive - probably not acceptable. * openNURBS - http://www.opennurbs.com/ - no license not even copyleft. This one is an optioanal Requirement for brlcad ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/brlcad/ ) - It can be downloaded by providing an email where they send a password code that can uncompress the archive - need to be repackaged then... Brlcad provides a copy of the sourcecode within the brlcad tarball. It will compile it statically (and will solve lot of gcc 4.1 compilation errors ). * Deal.II - http://www.dealii.org/5.2.0/license.html - QPL non-commercial use Saw in GPL-Incompatible Free Software Licenses from http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/ It seems not acceptable but sample taken from here stand for a library... * z88 - http://www.z88.uni-bayreuth.de - claims to be GPL but it needs openmotif which is not free software (lesstif cannot be used) Since patent/license often needs to be found looking at each source code header, that might be a really hard task for some of them... Maybe a preliminary answer should be fine about how to deal with that. There is sometime a dependency problem (for some of them I'm still at a early step at packaging ). Of course, if a hard build requirement cannot be in Fedora, then the package will inherit from the ban. But what about an optional BR ? Nicolas (kwizart) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Remi - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGywn0lNdbIlsB+AERAltlAKCQztftab1IcQs79NEw+S0QhqdbtwCgg+6R fPOE0KpQChSASRYMITW6PJk= =F56o -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
