Support of modern file formats in exiv2

[Mattia Verga]

I have found an old (2021) ticket in BZ regarding exiv2 support being disabled for some modern file formats.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1979565

There it is said that the ticket is awaiting for some conclusion from Fedora Legal, yet I cannot find any discussion was ever opened here on ML, nor any comment was ever posted by legal there.
Can someone drop a comment there? BTW support in exiv2 is now enabled by default, but disabled in Fedora specfile.

Thanks.

[Richard Fontana]

On Sun, Aug 13, 2023 at 4:18 AM Mattia Verga  wrote:
> I have found an old (2021) ticket in BZ regarding exiv2 support being disabled for some modern file formats.
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1979565
>
> There it is said that the ticket is awaiting for some conclusion from Fedora Legal, yet I cannot find any discussion was ever opened here on ML, nor any comment was ever posted by legal there.
> Can someone drop a comment there? BTW support in exiv2 is now enabled by default, but disabled in Fedora specfile.

I don't think I am familiar with this one. From the ticket it sounds
like Ben was working with the Red Hat patent team on this a few years
ago, so I'll forward this to their attention.

Richard