[Fedora-packaging] libspotify

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Sun Jun 28 12:41:56 UTC 2009



On Sun, 28 Jun 2009, Paul wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm considering packaging libspotify (it's a library for accessing the
> spotify music service), but it has a couple of problems.
>
> The licence is MIT, which is fine. However, for a user to be able
> connect to spotify, they have to email spotify to obtain a file which
> registers them. It also requires a .la file which is against the
> packaging rules.
>
> Spotify have very little interest in their library, so there would
> probably be little that they would do to remove this .la file and
> without it, the package won't install locally.
>
> Any comments or advice on this?

Question:
   Does this package make any software linked to it work on the fedora 
legal queue and have an assortment of frogs?

zing!

-sv




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