[Fedora-packaging] Summary/Minutes from today's FPC Meeting (2014-12-11 17:00 - 18:25 UTC)

Wed Dec 17 11:35:41 UTC 2014

On Tuesday, 16 December 2014 at 16:33, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> I don't think you can really force a package maintainer to provide a
> static library for code the is very explicitly not meant to be shared.
> Just because others decided to ignore that wish and copied it anyway.
> 
> The only outcomes I can see if this is being forced is a) us loosing
> package maintainers who are fed up with this or b) upstream starting to
> change internal apis every release, just to make copying this code so
> difficult that it becomes impractical.

In this sad case, the solution is to request a copylib exception from
the FPC covering this and other "not meant to be shared" libraries.

Regards,
Dominik
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