[Bug 1030] Review request: xbmc - Media center

[RPM Fusion Bugzilla]

http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1030





--- Comment #108 from Alex Lancaster <alexl at users.sourceforge.net>  2010-03-01 23:06:00 ---
(In reply to comment #107)
> (In reply to comment #106)
> 
> > > * zlib
> > 
> > Afaik same as with boost
> The original sources use the bundled zlibs, however should already be unused
> with our patches.

Right, ditto with many of the other bundles, which have been removed.

> > > Finally, the following may not be appropriate for Fedora or RPM Fusion because
> > > of problematic licenses:
> > > 
> > > * libGoAhead (Not quite sure what to make of the license, but I think this is
> > > going away in the next release anyway)
> > 
> > To confirm, latest SVN does not have libGoAhead and uses libmicrohttpd instead
> 
> This likely doesn't help us. The licening xbmc ships with its GoAhead sources 
> * puts us under a legal risk of being sued by GoAhead, because we are patching
> GoAhead.
> * Very likely invalidates xbmc's licensing, i.e. xbmc's sources very likely are
> *NOT GPL'ed*.


We should just remove all the GoAhead stuff from the tarball, can we just build
the 9.11 without GoAhead at all? switching to SVN is likely to be a major pain
at this stage.


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