On Sun, 30 Sep 2012 22:20:15 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > > > The Squeak VM package in Fedora includes the upstream source code for MP3 > > > support, but disables actually building it. Is that okay, or does the > > > tarball need to be sanitized? > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:SourceURL#When_Upstream_uses_Prohibited_Code > > Right, I saw that, but it's not clear if MP3 falls under "not allowed to > ship even as source code". If that's the case, shouldn't we just say so? Then you would need to explain what you're thinking. You've pointed at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Forbidden_items?rd=ForbiddenItems#MP3_Support | MP3 encoding and decoding support is not included in any Fedora | application because MP3 is heavily patented in several regions | including the United States. The patent holder is unwilling to give an | unrestricted patent grant, as required by the GPL. [...] and in turn I've pointed at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:SourceURL#When_Upstream_uses_Prohibited_Code | Some upstream packages include patents or trademarks that we are not | allowed to ship even as source code. In these cases you have to modify | the source tarball to remove this code before you even upload it to | the build system. [...] so all you ask for is to be even more explicit in connecting these two? -- Fedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle) - Linux 3.5.4-2.fc17.x86_64 loadavg: 0.35 0.29 0.25 -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
