Outdated Wine versions in koji?

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Mon May 10 16:27:37 UTC 2010


On 05/10/2010 04:01 AM, Zoltan Boszormenyi wrote:
> I guess the legal problem(s) may come from the fact that
> newer Wine has cut out its own MP3 decoder and instead,
> it uses dlopened libmpg123. How does it differ from the
> DVD playing situation? Xine, MPlayer, etc. uses libdvdcss
> via dlopen if available. And the user, not the distributor adds
> the decoding facility...

This is not the legal issue at issue here. As you've noted, dlopening
libraries is not a problem for Fedora (including those troublesome
libraries is the problem).

~spot

P.S. Please don't ask me what the legal issue is.


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