gnome-do & subpackages

Andrea Musuruane musuruan at gmail.com
Wed Nov 18 16:38:58 CET 2009


On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Juan Rodriguez
<nushio at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Hi there,
> My name is Juan Rodriguez, and I currently maintain a pair of packages for
> Fedora 10, 11 and 12.
> One of those packages I maintain is gnome-do, (and gnome-do-plugins), with
> gnome-do-docklets along the way. However, it has come to my attention that
> gnome-do's "docky" interface violates US Patent 7434177 [1], which in turn,
> crippled gnome-do by removing docky from the Fedora's package.
> I'd like to request for it to join the RPMFusion repositories instead.
> Thanks for your time,
> [1] http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7,434,177.PN.&OS=PN/7,434,177&RS=PN/7,434,177

AFAIK your packages are welcome in RPM Fusion and they do not need a
review since they were already reviewed in Fedora.

Bye,

Andrea.


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