[Bug 694287] Review Request: openCOLLADA - 3D import and export libraries

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--- Comment #21 from Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> 2011-04-20 15:13:16 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #20)
> (In reply to comment #19)
> > (In reply to comment #17)
> > > 2 issues:
> > > 
> > > * The tarball contains a lot of bundled libraries (cf, Externals/).
> > 
> > cf?
> Compare for the contents of the directory called Externals/ inside of the
> tarball. It contains zlib, Cg,, libxml, lib3ds and other libraries.
> 
> A more detailed look into the package tells that openCOLLADA currently only
> uses MathMLSolver/ and UTF/.
> 
> => Make sure the other directories are not being used when building for Fedora.
> Brute-force way to do so would be to remove them in %prep (This is what a
> recent change to the FPG recommends).

I have done this and it still builds.


> > > This is problematic twice:
> > > - In general, the Fedora package should not not use them. 
> > > 
> > > - These packages' licenses need to be checked for whether they are properly
> > > licensed and whether these package's licenses are compatible to openCOLLADA's
> > > license. 
> > > 
> > > From a coarse glance into tarball, I'd suspect Externals/MathMLSolver not to be
> > > properly licensed (I can't find any licence). Googling however directed me to 
> > > http://mathmlsolver.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/mathmlsolver/trunk, but I
> > > haven't checked details, yet.
> > 
> > Drilled down to the actual SF page at it says it is MIT licensed.
> Yes. I meanwhile also found some copyright notices in Externals/MathMLSolver's
> headers and found openCOLLADA/Externals/MathMLSolver to be a hacked up version
> of the code on sourceforge.
> 
> I don't know why openCOLLADA is doing so - Could be they are "just hacking" and
> don't care about proper integration/packaging, could be the sourceforge project
> is dead. AFAICT, googling indicates openCOLLADA is the only user of
> MathMLSolver while the sourceforge project might be dead.

Yes, I haven't seen much activity on their SF page so I would assume it's dead.

As far as UTF goes. It looks to be a copy of ConvertUTF which also appears to
be defunct. I found a ftp link for the code on unicode.org through:

http://gears.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/third_party/convert_utf/README.google

If there is nothing happening upstream for these two libraries, are they OK
being bundled in openCOLLADA?

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