spotify: bundling and license issues.

[Nicolas Chauvet]

2012/11/6 Alec Leamas <leamas.alec at gmail.com>:
> Im considering to package the Spotify client  [1]:  This is a binary without
> sources  aimed for  the nonfree section. Two issues are not immediately
> clear to me:
>
> -Package  has a frightening  attachment of included licenses [2]. Do I need
> to sort out all of these in the License: tag?! Or is there a loophole to
> just use "Re-distributable, no changes permitted" , which is the overall
> conditions from Spotify?
This disclamer is usually reserved for firmwares in fedora, but can
apply to Proprietary software  running on a CPU too.

> - To make things work, I need to bundle some old libs (libssl, libcrypto)
> since I can't relink the  spotify binary blob.  Is this OK; given that these
> libs are private and not visible to other packages?
It will need to be filtered from the RPM dependency extractor too, but
this is usally expectable with closed source software, indeed. You are
not allowed to strip them.


Nicolas (kwizart)