[Bug 342] Review request: tivodecode - Convert a .TiVo file from TiVoToGo to a normal MPEG

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http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=342


Orcan Ogetbil <oget.fedora at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #12 from Orcan Ogetbil <oget.fedora at gmail.com>  2009-11-30 00:15:50 ---
I reviewed this package. I have some questions and comments: 

? What part of the code is Public Domain? Remember that, if a public domain
code gets compiled with a more restrictive license (well, any license is more
restrictive than public domain), the resulting binary will have the restrictive
license.

* I believe that the COPYING file must go to the libs package because that is
the base package (the other packages require it), so if someone installs any
tivodecode-X package we make sure that he gets a COPYING file.

! About the rpmlints, the license and documentation ones can be ignored.
shared-libs-calls-exit is not nice. But for the time being there are not so
many applications that depend on this library. So we can ignore this for now,
and come back to it later if it causes problems.

* This looks like free software. But the license contains the phrases:

   All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this
   software must display the following acknowledgement:  This product
   includes software developed by QUALCOMM Incorporated.

   ... any commercial product utilising any of the Turing family of encryption
   algorithms should show the words "Encryption by QUALCOMM" either on the
   product or in the associated documentation.

These make me think that the software might be considered nonfree.
So Fedora Legal denies this package due to patent issues but what did Fedora
Legal say about the freedom of this software? Is it free or nonfree?


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