Bundled Flash

Orion Poplawski orion at cora.nwra.com
Thu Aug 15 21:02:21 UTC 2013


On 08/15/2013 02:45 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote:
> It's come to my attention that a number of packages contain Flash (.swf) files,
> but absolutely none of them have BuildRequires on a free software Flash
> toolchain, nor do any of them seem to be shipping the source for these files.
> :-(
>
> It has never been permissible to included prebuilt files of this nature in
> Fedora [1], and FPC unequivocally stated during today's meeting that they have
> no interest in making an exception for this.
>
> Please remove this prohibited content from your packages, or ensure that any
> included .swf files are built from source using a free software toolchain like
> `swfc` during the %build phase.  A list of affected packages sorted by owner is
> included below, and I'll be filing bugs for these soon.
>
> -T.C.
>
> [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#No_inclusion_of_pre-built_binaries_or_libraries
>

> orion ckeditor

Thanks.  Turns out ckeditor also had a raw .fla file.  I don't know if any 
package would have a .fla without a .swf, but it might be worth checking for.


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