Re: Qt packages necessaries to develop for Android

2014-06-11 Thread Eric Smith
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: Hunting for patents is one thing (I wouldn't recommend it either), but looking for obviously patent-encumbered stuff (like MP3 codecs) is another . Unfortunately it is generally not obvious what things are obviously

Re: Qt packages necessaries to develop for Android

2014-06-10 Thread Kevin Kofler
drago01 wrote: We have been shipping patented code in freetype for a while (until it expired) we just disabled it at build time. But this has never been compliant with Fedora Legal policies. Kevin Kofler -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Qt packages necessaries to develop for Android

2014-06-10 Thread Kevin Kofler
Eric Smith wrote: IANAL, but multiple lawyers have told me that it is generally a bad idea to go looking for patents, at least in the US. If they're brought to your attention, you should probably do whatever is necessary to avoid them, but you shouldn't actively seek them out, even just to

Re: Qt packages necessaries to develop for Android

2014-06-10 Thread Orcan Ogetbil
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 7:49 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Eric Smith wrote: IANAL, but multiple lawyers have told me that it is generally a bad idea to go looking for patents, at least in the US. If they're brought to your attention, you should probably do whatever is necessary to avoid them, but

Re: Qt packages necessaries to develop for Android

2014-06-09 Thread Isaac Cortés González
El jun 8, 2014 10:53 PM, Eric Smith space...@gmail.com escribió: IANAL, but multiple lawyers have told me that it is generally a bad idea to go looking for patents, at least in the US. If they're brought to your attention, you should probably do whatever is necessary to avoid them, but you

Re: Qt packages necessaries to develop for Android

2014-06-09 Thread Eric Smith
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Isaac Cortés González w.isaac.cor...@gmail.com wrote: So, should I just clone the git repositories and build from those raw sources? Sounds reasonable to me. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Qt packages necessaries to develop for Android

2014-06-08 Thread Isaac Cortés González
So it's more a reason of manpower than any other thing. The question would be: is there any to accomplish this task? I can look for any patented or closed source software and if any of them are critical to build the SDK and NDK. Also I'll ask to the Replicant project for any hint/tip on this. El

Re: Qt packages necessaries to develop for Android

2014-06-08 Thread Eric Smith
On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 8:36 PM, Isaac Cortés González w.isaac.cor...@gmail.com wrote: I can look for any patented or closed source software IANAL, but multiple lawyers have told me that it is generally a bad idea to go looking for patents, at least in the US. If they're brought to your

Re: Qt packages necessaries to develop for Android

2014-06-07 Thread Rex Dieter
drago01 wrote: So I simply do not know whether the remove patented code from he tarball is simply paranoia or there is really a legal reason for it. I've been asked by fedora-legal to remove stuff from tarballs on multiple occasions for this reason. -- Rex -- devel mailing list

Re: Qt packages necessaries to develop for Android

2014-06-05 Thread Kevin Kofler
Isaac Cortés González wrote: But it is licensed under an Apache license, we can download the source and build it ourselves. Yes, please contact the Replicant folks for how to rebuild the Android SDK from source. (Last I checked, they didn't document the procedure either, but they should know

Re: Qt packages necessaries to develop for Android

2014-06-05 Thread Andrew Lutomirski
On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: Isaac Cortés González wrote: But it is licensed under an Apache license, we can download the source and build it ourselves. Yes, please contact the Replicant folks for how to rebuild the Android SDK from source. (Last

Re: Qt packages necessaries to develop for Android

2014-06-05 Thread Rex Dieter
Andrew Lutomirski wrote: The ripping things out of tarballs policy seems really weird to me. It means, for example, that I can't compare the hash of the openssl tarball to upstream's. Is it really necessary? I understand that Fedora can't ship anything infringes on a patent, but I had the

Re: Qt packages necessaries to develop for Android

2014-06-05 Thread drago01
On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 4:00 AM, Rex Dieter rdie...@math.unl.edu wrote: Andrew Lutomirski wrote: The ripping things out of tarballs policy seems really weird to me. It means, for example, that I can't compare the hash of the openssl tarball to upstream's. Is it really necessary? I

Re: Qt packages necessaries to develop for Android

2014-06-04 Thread Isaac Cortés González
But it is licensed under an Apache license, we can download the source and build it ourselves. -Isaac C. 2014-06-02 12:14 GMT-06:00 Andrew Lutomirski l...@mit.edu: On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 12:44 AM, Christopher Meng cicku...@gmail.com wrote: After looking at the link you provided,

Re: Qt packages necessaries to develop for Android

2014-06-02 Thread Christopher Meng
After looking at the link you provided, it's easy to see that we must have Android SDK packaged which is non-free IMO. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

Re: Qt packages necessaries to develop for Android

2014-06-02 Thread Andrew Lutomirski
On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 12:44 AM, Christopher Meng cicku...@gmail.com wrote: After looking at the link you provided, it's easy to see that we must have Android SDK packaged which is non-free IMO. It's plausible that Qt5 could be buildable against Replicant, though. --Andy -- devel mailing

Re: Qt packages necessaries to develop for Android

2014-06-01 Thread Isaac Cortés González
I don't really know. I've been looking and in the download page, and there's a package, named qtandroidextras-opensource-src-5.x.x.tar.XXX; but there's that much explanation if it is the core for develop in android, or addons to the core (the extras part in the name confuses me); then I found this

Re: Qt packages necessaries to develop for Android

2014-05-26 Thread Rex Dieter
Isaac Cortés González wrote: This may be a repeated topic. But is there any effort to add to the repos the packages of Qt to develop for Android? If there isn't how can I help? What packages of Qt does this include? -- Rex -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Qt packages necessaries to develop for Android

2014-05-22 Thread Isaac Cortés González
This may be a repeated topic. But is there any effort to add to the repos the packages of Qt to develop for Android? If there isn't how can I help? -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: