[Bug 708765] Review Request: Frogr - Flickr Remote Organizer for GNOME

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Alberto Garcia <agarcia at igalia.com> changed:

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--- Comment #65 from Alberto Garcia <agarcia at igalia.com> 2011-08-16 09:52:13 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #38)
> Of course it's possible to keep the separate license but then you
> have to explain why an integral part of frogr not intended to be
> used externally needs its own license.

My 2 cents:

My understanding of all this "No Bundled Libraries" rule is that in
general you want to avoid packaging a piece of software that includes
an external library in its source tree, for all the reasons explained
in the Fedora wiki page.

That looks like a sensible rule to me, but it's certainly not what
happens here. Apart from having two different licenses, none of the
problems detailed in the aforementioned wiki page apply to
Frogr/Flicksoup.

Flicksoup is not an external library, it's not being released
separately, there are no official tarballs and doesn't have a separate
upstream repository. It's not bundled with Frogr: it's an internal
part of it, much like mpglib was an internal part of mpg123 for a
decade or so.

I don't think that the fact that those files are released under a
different license makes any difference in this case.

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