[Bug 453422] Review Request: songbird - Mozilla based multimedia player

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--- Comment #135 from David Halik <auralvance at gmail.com> 2010-04-07 08:11:36 EDT ---
@kamisamanou

So what you're looking for is:

1) The EULA has to be removed. My understanding is that all Fedora packages
should be covered under the same licensing and Nightingale having a separate
EULA that the user must accept is not allowed.

2) Currently Songbird requires its own custom bundled xulrunner and taglib
(with heavy reliance on gstreamer as well). All of these dependencies should be
shifted to the system libs. I realize that there are a large amount of custom
patches that don't exist upstream, but if Nightingale is to be seriously
considered and work properly you should work towards a more system friendly
release and less of a monolithic package. As we've seen with the last release,
if the system version of gstreamer was even slightly different all hell broke
loose because it was designed to be used with an internal version. Songbird has
always been built as it's own universe, which might work well on Windows, but
not here in an packaged environment.

By the way, I'd be willing to keep this process going with Nightingale since I
already have been involved in packaging Songbird for two years, but I'd like to
see some commitment to these changes first before jumping back into it. Without
them there's no reason to proceed.

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