[Bug 1030] Review request: xbmc - Media center

http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1030 --- Comment #103 from Jonathan Dieter <jdieter(a)gmail.com&gt; 2010-03-01 13:05:41 --- Ralf's summary of the review to this point (posted to rpmfusion-devel): ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 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. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. You are the assignee for the bug.