[Bug 1418] Review request: povray - Persistence of Vision Ray-Tracer

[RPM Fusion Bugzilla]

http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1418


rc040203 at freenet.de changed:

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--- Comment #2 from rc040203 at freenet.de  2010-09-17 05:47:22 ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> The proper way of doing this is: You first send an email to the Fedora Legal
> mailing list, post the link of the distribution license, and ask them if it is
> okay to include it in Fedora. If they say no, then you come to RPMFusion and
> give a reference here to Fedora Legal's decision.

Well,

a) Povray is non-free. This is a well known fact for many years and had been
subject to many discussions.

b) Inclusion of povray into Fedora had been subject to discussions in the early
days of Fedora and was ruled out a non-free.

c) Maintaining povray as part of a distro puts the maintainer at legal risks,
because section 1 (esp. 1.2) of http://www.povray.org/source-license.html
renders povray's sources to be "effectively unmodifiable" (A distro's package
maintainer put himself under legal risks if he modifies the code).

That said, if I were prospective maintainer of an rpmfusion povray package, I
would directly contact POVray and ask them for permission.


(In reply to comment #0)
> SPEC: http://pikachu.2014.free.fr/public/alexises/packaging/povray/povray.spec
> SRPM:
> http://pikachu.2014.free.fr/public/alexises/packaging/povray/povray-3.7.0.beta.38-1.fc13.src.rpm

Apart of what I wrote above, I don't see much sense in shipping
povray-3.7.0.beta. If RPMfusion wants to ship povray, it should ship
povray-3.6.x.


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