On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:08 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 01/13/2012 05:49 AM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I have a grey-area issue. The new version of the clementine player >> comes bundled with 3rd party source files: sha2 [1], echoprint-codegen >> [2]. >> >> There are no licensing issues. Unfortunately, neither of the two >> upstreams provide their source files as libraries. From the >> descriptions in their webpages [1] and [2], they seem to me as "take >> this code and use it in your project as you wish". >> >> The question is, how do you think this would play with our guidelines? > > [...] > >> [1] http://www.aarongifford.com/computers/sha.html >> [2] https://github.com/echonest/echoprint-codegen > > I don't see anything unusal with both of these packages - Am I missing > something? > > IMO, these should be packaged as "ordinary packages". > Can you define "ordinary packages"? Should I write a Makefile or a shell script and turn the source files into shared libraries with some random sonames, and patch clementine to use these libraries? Orcan -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging