---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Adrian Bunk <[email protected]> Date: 2010/9/19 Subject: Re: [MeeGo-dev] [compliance] Different view on app compliance To: Carsten Munk <[email protected]> Cc: meego-dev <[email protected]>
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 09:57:33AM +0200, Carsten Munk wrote: > 2010/9/18 Adrian Bunk <[email protected]>: > > Assume I'm providing 5 applications using SDL, each in an own > > repository. > > > > Then I'll dump the upstream SDL souces into each of the 5 source > > packages, and each of them will build a libsdl package that will > > then be available in the repository of this application. > > > > If there's a security bug in SDL, I have to manually update the SDL > > sources in each application. > > > > Is that a correct understanding of your proposal? > > No, my hope is that compliance would discourage this behaviour and > make people push APIs to Staging and take responsibility for them > instead (security fixes, updates, etc) Can applications using non-OSS libraries from 3rd parties be compliant? > > Also note that it is possible that for legal and/or political reasons > > the library cannot be included in MeeGo Core or MeeGo Profile > > repositories (consider e.g. audio/video codecs and software patents). > > Agreed, but this would be typically be a problem for app stores too. > > We would have to rely on frameworks as GStreamer to deal with codecs, > I would guess. Can an application that relies on MP3 codec be MeeGo > compliant as not all MeeGo installs will have it? :) According to your rules, it just has to ship an MP3 GStreamer plugin. What should happen when two applications from different repositories ship the same MP3 GStreamer plugin? > Best regards, > Carsten Munk cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
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