[Fedora-legal-list] packaging pregenerated kdelibs-apidocs

Tom Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Wed Feb 1 14:45:58 UTC 2012


On 01/31/2012 04:57 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Tom Callaway wrote:
>> So, from a purely license compliance perspective, shipping the apidocs
>> without the matching sources in Fedora is a no-go. It's also a no-go
>> from a "everything must be built from source" rule.
> 
> That (both parts) is what I already told Rex, too, he just wouldn't believe 
> me. ;-)
> 
> Our current approach of building kdelibs-apidocs as a subpackage of kdelibs 
> looks compliant to me though, isn't it?

Yes, but I circle back to the original question I posed:

Is this package really valuable?
Does anyone really want 235MB of apidocs, especially given the legal
complexity/concerns, and the availability of these docs on the kde.org
website?

~tom

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