| Summary: | Review request: povray - Persistence of Vision Ray-Tracer | ||
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| Product: | Package Reviews | Reporter: | Lameire Alexis <alexisis-pristontale> |
| Component: | Review Request | Assignee: | RPM Fusion Package Review <rpmfusion-package-review> |
| Status: | RESOLVED MOVED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | k, musuruan, oget.fedora, rc040203, rpmfusion-package-review |
| Priority: | P5 | ||
| Version: | Current | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | GNU/Linux | ||
| See Also: | https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1055436 | ||
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Description
Lameire Alexis
2010-09-16 22:42:08 CEST
The proper way of doing this is: You first send an email to the Fedora Legal mailing list, post the link of the distribution license, and ask them if it is okay to include it in Fedora. If they say no, then you come to RPMFusion and give a reference here to Fedora Legal's decision. (In reply to comment #1) > The proper way of doing this is: You first send an email to the Fedora Legal > mailing list, post the link of the distribution license, and ask them if it is > okay to include it in Fedora. If they say no, then you come to RPMFusion and > give a reference here to Fedora Legal's decision. Well, a) Povray is non-free. This is a well known fact for many years and had been subject to many discussions. b) Inclusion of povray into Fedora had been subject to discussions in the early days of Fedora and was ruled out a non-free. c) Maintaining povray as part of a distro puts the maintainer at legal risks, because section 1 (esp. 1.2) of http://www.povray.org/source-license.html renders povray's sources to be "effectively unmodifiable" (A distro's package maintainer put himself under legal risks if he modifies the code). That said, if I were prospective maintainer of an rpmfusion povray package, I would directly contact POVray and ask them for permission. (In reply to comment #0) > SPEC: http://pikachu.2014.free.fr/public/alexises/packaging/povray/povray.spec > SRPM: > http://pikachu.2014.free.fr/public/alexises/packaging/povray/povray-3.7.0.beta.38-1.fc13.src.rpm Apart of what I wrote above, I don't see much sense in shipping povray-3.7.0.beta. If RPMfusion wants to ship povray, it should ship povray-3.6.x. Starting from v3.7 POV-Ray is licensed under the "Affero General Public License 3.0" (AGPLv3): http://www.povray.org/povlegal.html This is a GOOD license for Fedora: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main#Good_Licenses Please move the review there. (In reply to comment #4) > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1055436 Sorry folks my packaging activities weren't meant to be directed against anybody involved in the povray-package here. It's simply that I have been actively using povray for many years and had used some spare hours during the Christmas holiday to upgrade my local povray package to 3.7. I'd really love to see povray in Fedora, so reviewers and co-maintainers, welcome! |