[Fedora-legal-list] Do we need to remove proprietary code from previous releases?

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On 03/05/2009 02:36 PM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
> Recently I took over the orphaned package libzzub in F-10 and devel. I
> found that the upstream renamed the package to armstrong, so I opened
> a review request for armstrong and it just got approved.
> 
> But whenever I was packaging armstrong, I found that the source
> tarball contains some MS propriatary code. This code does not get
> compiled into the final binary RPM but I removed it from the tarball
> when I created the SRPM. libzzub is now going through the
> PackageEndOfLife process and will be removed from F-10 and devel soon.
> 
> The thing is, the old package libzzub that is in F-7, F-8 and F-9
> still has this code in the SRPM. How shall we proceed in this case?

Push updates for any non EOL branches without the proprietary gunk. In
this case, F-9, since F-10 and devel are being taken care of by armstrong.

~spot