Re: external source files for clementine

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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
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