[Bug 1030] Review request: xbmc - Media center

[RPM Fusion Bugzilla]

http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1030





--- Comment #103 from Jonathan Dieter <jdieter at gmail.com>  2010-03-01 13:05:41 ---
Ralf's summary of the review to this point (posted to rpmfusion-devel):
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* Technically: *-12 doesn't build for FC13 ;)

- An API change between rpmfusion's FC12 and FC13's ffmpeg breaks xbmc.
- xbmc is victim of the DSO changes in FC13.
- There is a subtile configure script bug somewhere causing it to 
(silently) not to work for FC13.

I have dirty hacks addressing the 1st and 2nd issues pending, but am 
still investigating the latter, yet. Could be one these "autoreconf is 
harmful" cases, could also be a side-effect of the DSO-changes, could be 
something else, ... I don't know yet.


* Usability-wise:
- Verify that python works sufficiently.
There have been reports that xbmc's python scripts (python2.4) don't 
work on Fedora (python2.6). I haven't see any such python breakdown yet, 
so I don't know how to reproduce such breakdown.

- Decide about what to do with xbmc-standalone.
IMO, it's dysfunctional.

- Decide about what to do with /usr/bin/xbmc's "core dump feature".
To me, it's nothing but silly.


* Perform a legal review.

- AFAICT, even if putting patent issues aside, xbmc is not [L]GPL'ed, 
because it contains subpackages/libraries which are not 
[L]GPL-compatible.  The original xbmc code certainly is "free", but I am 
having strong doubts if all of the libraries they have bundled, are 
(e.g. GoAHead, UnRar).

In Fedora, I would reject this package for "improper licensing" and/or 
delegate it for legal review to FE-LEGAL. No idea, about what rpmfusion 
wants to do about it.

- One detail: xbmc contains fonts, which suspiciously look like "bundled 
msttcorefonts", but I haven't checked the details, yet.


* Packaging-wise/FPG-compliance-wise: xbmc contains many "bundled" 
libraries.


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