[Bug 83] Review request: barry - BlackBerry(tm) Desktop for Linux

[RPM Fusion Bugzilla]

http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83


Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX




--- Comment #5 from Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl>  2008-10-21 16:11:09 ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> > I've audited the source tarbal for barry and there is no closed source stuff 
> > in there. As for patents, as long as it doesn't use ane mpeg technologies like 
> > mp3 audio or mpeg video, which I don't think it does, that is not an issue 
> > either.
> 
> Thank you for looking at the source Hans.  Just for my own learning, how did
> you go about looking through the tarbal to see if there was anything closed
> source?
> 

I basicly opened all plain text files in a text editor and checked the
copyright header. That combined with the COPYING in the root of the tarbal
signaling intend for files without a copyright header, is basicly it.

> > IOW, I so no reason why this cannot go to Fedora.
> > 
> > Thus please submit this for inclusion into to Fedora. Are you already a Fedora
> > contributer?
> 
> I am not a Fedora contributer, but I'll work on that today and get it
> submitted.   

Then you will need to be sponsored, I can sponsor you, but then you will need
to either create some more packages or do some reviews, see:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Join
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/HowToGetSponsored

> Should I close this but and mark it Fixed?
> 

Close as wontfix would be more appropriate, doing that now :)


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