[Bug 1065] Review request: aqualung - Music Player for GNU/Linux

[RPM Fusion Bugzilla]

https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1065

Jeremy Newton <alexjnewt at hotmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Jeremy Newton <alexjnewt at hotmail.com> 2012-02-21 19:32:20 CET ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> Mac's license issue is tough for me.
> So I simply disabled mac support
> (Aqualung has the capability to play .ape using ffmpeg instead of mac).
> And this package came to "free".
> ---
> Spec URL: http://jaist.dl.sourceforge.jp/rpms/45780/aqualung.spec
> SRPM URL:
> http://jaist.dl.sourceforge.jp/rpms/45782/aqualung-0.9-0.5.svn1115.fc12.src.rpm
> ---

Are you still interested in maintaining this? As I have some time to do
reviews.

(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > While the patent-encumbered stuff is fine in RPM Fusion, linking this GPLv2+
> > program against the non-Free and thus GPL-incompatible mac looks very much
> > like a no-go to me.
> 
> this comes from upstream - maybe someone should tell them they are breaking
> their own licensing :-)
> 
> anyways, I thought this is exactly what the non-free section of RPMFusion is
> for ... if we have mac, why not to have anything that links to it? - the
> Aqualung authors' intention surely wasn't to prevent distribution and usage of
> their software

Though this comment was made 2 years ago, for clarification reasons, believe
the issue is the violation of the GPL, not so much a RPMFusion specific issue.
This needs to have the libraries that link to mac (or other non-free) to be
LPGL or another compatible license.

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