spotify: bundling and license issues.

[Alec Leamas]

On 2012-11-07 22:40, Nicolas Chauvet wrote:
> 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)
Thanks for clarifications!

Review request: https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2565