[Bug 170309] Review Request: opencv

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Summary: Review Request: opencv


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=170309





------- Additional Comments From ed at eh3.com  2005-10-10 15:47 EST -------
Hi Simon, I'm really happy to see that someone is interested in volunteering 
to package OpenCV for Fedora.  I spent a few hours looking at it and got 
bogged down in the dependency details.

Mainly, OpenCV needs ffmpeg which is LGPL (good!) but it unfortunately has
some very real legal issues regarding patents as described in their FAQ:

  http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/legal.php

so, in all likelihood, ffmpeg cannot be added to Fedora Extras per the 
patent requirements:

  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingGuidelines

which would then mean that OpenCV is effectively excluded since it depends 
upon ffmpeg and FE packages cannot depend upon packages that are themselves 
excluded from FE.

And if I've made any mistakes in the above reasoning then please point 
them out!

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