[Bug 708765] Review Request: Frogr - Flickr Remote Organizer for GNOME

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--- Comment #31 from Mario Sanchez Prada <msanchez at igalia.com> 2011-06-02 17:12:55 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #30)
> [...]
> > If the FPC doesn't grant an exception, this is probably the only alternative. 
> 
> If the Fedora Packaging Comitee granted that exception that would be awesome.
> As I said, I'm open to (temporarily at least) removing the git repository of
> flicksoup in gitorious, and I'm also open, if bundling a static library in
> frogr is a problem (as I understand from your words), to merge even more those
> files in src/fliksoup with frogr, so they would be compiled just through the
> same set of files in the SOURCES variable, in src/Makefile.am.
> 
> That way, there wouldn't be anymore a libflicksoup.a frogr would link against,
> just the source files as they are, avoiding the problems with Fedora packaging,
> if I got it right.

I did this change upstream in frogr, you can check it out here:
http://git.gnome.org/browse/frogr/commit/?id=29baa0f75d8247c8769375c1a1e616c6cc81ddb5

Now there's no more a libflicksoup.la file, as all the fsp-*.[ch] files are
compiled as part of the frogr binary. Can somebody point out if in this
situation frogr would be more suitable to be packaged for Fedora? 

Also still not removed the flicksoup repo from gitorious, waiting for some
feedback from this thread on the topic, although I'm now more in the mood of
removing it than of keeping it :-)

> [...]
> But all this, when it comes to releasing frogr 0.5 in fedora, would mean that
> such an exception should be granted. Or well... if such an exception was not
> granted we could also release frogr 0.5.1 with those modifications in place, in
> case you agree is a good idea

As I mentioned here, if releasing frogr 0.5.1 with these latest modifications
in place help in any way to Fedora packagers, I'll gladly do it so. Just ask.

> If this idea (remove the libflicksoup.a from frogr) was feasible, I'd say is
> the best way to go. And if keeping the flicksoup files inside of frogr with the
> LGPLv3 license was not a problem for Fedora, then it would be perfect.

At the moment I kept the files in src/flicksoup/ as LGPLv3. Hope there's no
issue with that.

Last but not least, I've changed the wording about flicksoup inside the files
that were mentioning it inside frogr, to stop telling that is a "bundled
library", which is not yet.

Hope these changes help moving towards our goal :-)

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