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--- Comment #13 from Alec Leamas leamas.alec@gmail.com 2012-05-09 06:53:17 EDT --- (In reply to comment #11)
IMHO, the best practice for OpenERP is to incorporate and keep maintaining the needed modules from Faces, if OpenERP license compatible with GPL. Then if the maintenance is obvious, this can be considered as forking and acceptable in Fedora.
The OpenERP license is AGPLv3, which is compatible with GPLv2+
OpenERP includes the sources today. This clearly constitutes a bundling, and this request is really about unbundling the faces library from OpenERP. See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries. Basically, I need to either package faces or get a bundling exception. In this case, I'm certain that a request for bundling exception would give a "package separately" reply. The patch is basically between what's in OE today and (partly) works, and the upstream which is unusable.
(In reply to comment #12)
Patching faces/__init__.py actually changes the API of the module, so I considers it too heavy.
Shall we ask the list about this? Seems that we just disagree ?! As far as I know, there is no rule blocking this kind of patching. OTOH, not everything is covered in rules, it's also about overall judgment. Which can be harder to agree on, though.