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

[Orcan Ogetbil]

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Tom spot Callaway wrote:
> 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
>

Done.

Orcan