[Bug 617141] Review Request: gupnp-dlna - A collection of helpers for building DLNA applications

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--- Comment #13 from Till Maas <opensource at till.name> 2010-08-23 17:55:44 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #11)
> (In reply to comment #10)
> > Peter, you're right regarding pkgconfig-files and the dependency. 
> 
> Cool. Will leave as is.
> 
> > As far as I can see, the COPYING files calls itself
> >   GNU LIBRARY GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE  Version 2, June 1991
> > (taken from here:
> > http://gitorious.org/gupnp/gupnp-vala/blobs/master/COPYING
> > 
> > Looking at e.g. ../BUILD/gupnp-dlna-0.2.1/libgupnp-dlna/gupnp-dlna-discoverer.c
> > I can not find the word LESSER license, but GPL v2 or any later version.
> 
> Speaking with upstream the licensing in wrong and there will be a new upstream
> release shortly to fix the problem.

How are they going to fix this? Will they change from Library to Lesser to
plain GPL?

> > > There seems to be a third issue: The tarball includes a copy of gst-convenience
> > > and seems to use it for building. But this is a separate project:
> > > http://git.collabora.co.uk/?p=user/edward/gst-convenience.git;a=tree
> > > 
> > > Therefore it violates the "no bundled libaries" guideline:
> > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries
> > 
> > Till is right, I missed that. Can you separate it?
> 
> Its not meant to be separated, speaking with upstream its a staging library
> that will be moved to upstream gst stuff. Its covered in this bug
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=625944 and it will be dropped and
> the gst dependencies updated once its there.

This is probably ok then. Have you considered mentioning this in the spec or
opening a bug about it once the package is imported to make sure this is not
forgotten e.g. in case it is merged in gstreamer but still shipped with
gupnp-dlna?

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