Bundled Flash

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Fri Aug 23 09:28:34 UTC 2013


On Thu, 2013-08-15 at 13:45 -0700, 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
> 
> brummbq owncloud

I've quickly tested and built a 'fix' for owncloud (just dropping the
plugins, really) for F18, F19, F20 and Rawhide. See
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1000257 .
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