Revert curl change made for flash

Warren Togami warren at togami.com
Tue Aug 12 14:51:09 UTC 2008


Josh Boyer wrote:
> I'd like to formally request that this curl change be reverted:
> 
> * Mon Aug 11 2008 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> 7.18.2-4
> - make miniature library for libcurl.so.3
> 
> Due to the fact that it was simply made to accommodate proprietary
> software, as described in this blog entry:
> 
> http://wtogami.livejournal.com/27778.html
> 
> There are at least a dozen other proprietary applications that could
> "benefit" from making similar changes to other packages, and we
> certainly wouldn't make those changes for them.  Flash should be no
> different.
> 
> josh
> 

You are proposing removing a zero maintenance 2496 byte file that would 
permanently break Flash 10 forever in Fedora.

They are not violating any licenses like NVidia, and we seriously are 
not going out of our way to allow it to work.  Extremist views are 
rarely the most productive.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com




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