On Sun, 30 Sep 2012 22:20:15 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > The Squeak VM package in Fedora includes the upstream
source code for MP3
> > support, but disables actually building it. Is that okay, or does the
> > tarball need to be sanitized?
>
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:SourceURL#When_Upstream_uses_Pro...
Right, I saw that, but it's not clear if MP3 falls under "not allowed to
ship even as source code". If that's the case, shouldn't we just say so?
Then you would need to explain what you're thinking.
You've pointed at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Forbidden_items?rd=ForbiddenItems#MP3_Support
| MP3 encoding and decoding support is not included in any Fedora
| application because MP3 is heavily patented in several regions
| including the United States. The patent holder is unwilling to give an
| unrestricted patent grant, as required by the GPL. [...]
and in turn I've pointed at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:SourceURL#When_Upstream_uses_Pro...
| Some upstream packages include patents or trademarks that we are not
| allowed to ship even as source code. In these cases you have to modify
| the source tarball to remove this code before you even upload it to
| the build system. [...]
so all you ask for is to be even more explicit in connecting these two?
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