parts of GLX under non-free licenses

[Robert Schuster]

Hi,
the Ubuntu-based gNewSense distribution removed parts of GLX because of
a license issue[0]. They did so because SGI Public License and SGI Free
Software License B are non-free.

According to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing this is also true
for Fedora and the JOGL package was removed because of it.

It is known that Debian is aware of the problem since 2003 but has not
come up with a solution.

The removal of the files breaks apps like compiz-fusion and the like.

Is this problem solved in Fedora?

If not it might be good if we can get in contact with the copyright
holder of those files and ask for a relicensing.

Regards
Robert

[0] - http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00103

[Tom Callaway]

On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 10:07 +0200, Robert Schuster wrote:
>  It is known that Debian is aware of the problem since 2003 but has
> not
>  come up with a solution. 
We're aware of this issue, and it is currently under investigation
internally.

>  Is this problem solved in Fedora? 
Not at this time. We've not allowed any new code into Fedora under the
GLX or Free B licenses, but that is a stopgap, not a solution.

>  If not it might be good if we can get in contact with the copyright
>  holder of those files and ask for a relicensing. 
The copyright holder of those files is not interested in relicensing.

~spot

bug 426867: pre-built binaries for bootstrapping

[Mamoru Tasaka]

Hi:

I am now trying to review scala [1]. This is Java related
package and the submitter says that pre-built binaries are needed
for bootstrapping. The submitter seems to have asked this 
issue once [2], however it seems no conclusion is made then.

The srpm and the rebuilt binary rpms (on dist-f9-updates-candidate) can
be downloaded from [3]. Would you judge if this situation can be
allowed for Fedora?

Regards,
Mamoru

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=426867
[2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-packaging/2008-January/msg00074.html
[3] http://koji.fedoraproject.org/scratch/mtasaka/task_594276/