gnome-do & subpackages

[Juan Rodriguez]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Jonathan Dieter <jdieter at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 16:45 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > Juan Rodriguez wrote on 18.11.2009 16:32:
> > > 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.
> >
> > As mentioned on IRC: We iirc allow  packages that got removed from
> > Fedora to enter RPM Fusion without additional review. If my memory
> > serves me correct (e.g. if nobody yells over the next 2 days) then file
> > a CVS reqeuest for gnome-do and gnome-do-plugins and apply for
> > membership in FAS. You'll find details how to do that on
> > http://rpmfusion.org/Contributors
>
> Just seeking clarification: does gnome-do check its plugins at runtime?
> If so, could we just have a gnome-do-docky package instead of having an
> RPM Fusion package conflict with the Fedora one?
>
> Jonathan
>

Alright, I started poking people around, and here's the current status:
gnome-do will remove "docky" from their package in a future release, though
not due to patents. They had already planned this before the situation
arose.

I talked with the gnome-do developers, and they wrote us a patch to remove
Zoom functionality, which is what's mentioned in that particular patent.

With that, we can continue shipping gnome-do 0.8.2 and its plugins  in
Fedora, and once 'Docky' is ready, we can ship that, and docklets, with full
functionality, in RPMFusion instead, and Docky will be gone from gnome-do
anyways.

-- 
Ing. Juan M. Rodriguez Moreno
Desarrollador de Sistemas Abiertos
Sitio: http://proyectofedora.org/mexico
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