FE-Legal bugzilla tickets

[Jason L Tibbitts III]

>>>>> "TC" == Tom Callaway <Tom> writes:

TC> If it is a licensing issue, I'd be happy to eyeball it and see if
TC> it can't be solved by me without wasting lawyer time (or wasting
TC> packager time waiting for a lawyer).

Here's an executive summary of the open bugs blocking FE-Legal (damn
case-sensitive bugzilla alias lookup).  There are indeed a few
licensing issues, and a couple of questions about parsing non-patented
container formats containing data in some patented format.  Which
seems obviously OK to me, as otherwise we couldn't package tar or zip.

177134 - mkvtoolnix - deals with encoded data in a specific container
  format, but does not encode or decode actual data stored within that
  container (see comment #2).
  http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=177134#c2

178162 - libgeotiff - the data file included in the package has a
  licensing issue (see comment #2)
  http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=178162#c2

190144 - hevea - the documentation has a licensing issue (see comment
  #7).
  http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=190144#c7

190343 - VDR - deals with MPEG data from an external source (hardware),
  but neither encodes nor decodes it (see comment #10).
  http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=190343#c10

191036 - libmp4v2 - parses the mp4 container format.  Does not decode
  actual data stored in the container.
  http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=191036

204166 - xeuphoric - emulator with copyrighted ROMs included.
  Submitter indicates that all copyrights have lapsed with no
  successor.
  http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=204166

205798 - xine-lib - patented stuff has already been stripped from the
  submitted tarball.
  http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=205798

205955 - gdal - same problem as libgeotiff, except that unlike
  libgeotiff, this package actually needs the data to be useful.
  http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=205955

 - J<