[Fedora-packaging] mp3 source (but not compiled) in squeak package

[Matthew Miller]

On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 02:32:26AM +0200, Michael Schwendt 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?

This: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=247983 brings up a number
of issues. But here, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481056#c5,
Gavin notes that the licensing issues have been resolved. I hadn't looked at
this deeply initially -- I'm just trying to get Scratch to work -- but now I
wonder if it needs a second check. (For example, I see that the GPLv2+
code is still there.)

(There *is* now a Debian package, by the way, and it looks like they've done
some investigation:
http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/s/squeak-vm/squeak-vm_4.4.7.2357-1.1/squeak-vm.copyright
)



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