[Bug 1030] Review request: xbmc - Media center

[RPM Fusion Bugzilla]

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





--- Comment #144 from Alex Lancaster <alexl at users.sourceforge.net>  2010-03-07 07:13:31 ---
(In reply to comment #143)

> The founding principle of rpmfusion is shipping softwares that have legal
> problems in fedora. We should be lenient with software that have the patent and
> licensing issues.

Patent issues are one thing because they don't apply in all jurisdictions, but
we obviously can't distribute anything that is not distributable period, since
copyright still applies and there is much more worldwide standardisation when
it comes to copyright law.  So we have to care about licensing issues in that
sense.  e.g. we have to make sure that licenses are at least compatible and the
like (e.g. we can't mix GPLv2-only and GPLv3+ code).

In any case, although I would dispute the "user experience" be degraded because
of the issues I outlined in comment #138 (I think the effect would actually be
pretty minimal), I'm happy to move to this to the non-free repo.  I suspect
that there may be other issues that crop up that might necessitate a move to
non-free at a later point anyway.


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