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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=694287
--- Comment #19 from Richard Shaw hobbes1069@gmail.com 2011-04-14 22:40:40 EDT --- (In reply to comment #17)
2 issues:
- The tarball contains a lot of bundled libraries (cf, Externals/).
cf?
This is problematic twice:
In general, the Fedora package should not not use them.
These packages' licenses need to be checked for whether they are properly
licensed and whether these package's licenses are compatible to openCOLLADA's license.
From a coarse glance into tarball, I'd suspect Externals/MathMLSolver not to be properly licensed (I can't find any licence). Googling however directed me to http://mathmlsolver.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/mathmlsolver/trunk, but I haven't checked details, yet.
Drilled down to the actual SF page at it says it is MIT licensed. How do we handle that? I ran into this problem on RPMFusion and the decision was to put comments above the License: tag explaining which parts had what license.
- The package naming seems inconsistent to me:
libOpenCOLLADA vs. OpenCOLLADA-devel
The FPG would recommend using the tarball name, which would mean to name the packages openCOLLADA and openCOLLADA-devel
The current naming was how the Suse maintainer set it up and I'm sure their rules differ in many areas. For the purpose of the Fedora package I'll change the name.