upnp and patents

[Hans de Goede]

Tanguy Eric wrote:
> Hi, this soft make what i hate : integrate another project. Mediatomb
> integrate in the tarball a quite old version of libupnp (1.6.1) which is
> BSD license (http://pupnp.sourceforge.net/). Fedora have libupnp 1.6.2
> in stable and 1.6.3 is pending. 
> I hope this package will not interfere with fedora libupnp. 
> There is also libdlna (http://libdlna.geexbox.org/) which is an
> extension of libupnp. Libdlna is patent encumbred because it uses ffmpeg
> and is now part of livna.
> 
> In conclusion, Mediatomb uses pupnp software which is patent free but it
> duplicates software ...
> 

Thanks for your reply, can you please add your comment about Mediatomb using 
its own private copy of libupnp to:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=426733

Then the packager should patch is so that it will use the system version instead,

Thanks!

Regards,

Hans



> Regards
> 
> Eric Tanguy
> 
> Le mercredi 02 janvier 2008 à 12:28 +0100, Hans de Goede a écrit :
>> Hi,
>>
>> I know that there has been some work done recently on some upnp packages for 
>> livna as there were some patent issues, today I stumbled over this review in 
>> Fedora:
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=426733
>>
>> Can someone who knows a bit more check wether this piece of upnp software is 
>> patent stuff free?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Hans
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