packaging imms for Fedora

[Milos Jakubicek]

Hi,

I'm sending this message because I'm packaging imms for Fedora.

I've already packaged Torch, but now I need your assistance if you
want imms to be part of the Fedora distribution: Many of the imms
source files and some of the third-party code don't include any
license information (see [1] for details).

This needs to be definitely fixed, otherwise it is a blocker for imms
in Fedora.

Would you mind adding the necessary license information to your source
files and contacting authors of the remaining affected third-party
code (3 files) to do the same?

Moreover: imms currently still sticks to the bmp API for communication
with audacious. Since bmp is not in Fedora anymore (has been
substituted with audacious), this means that I can't build imms with
audacious support. Maybe it wouldn't be so complicated to not use the
bmp API anymore?

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483025

Thanks in advance,
Milos Jakubicek

[Michael Grigoriev]

Hey, Milos,

I fixed compilation with recent Audacious versions in 3.1.0-rc7.
[http://www.luminal.org/files/imms/imms-3.1.0-rc7.tar.bz2]

I am fairly sure all the code in question is GPL. I made sure of that
before including it.
I do not have the time to follow up with the authors of the code right
now, but I'm certainly willing to apply any patches to clarify
licenses.
Perhaps, Artur, the Debian IMMS maintainer (cc'ed) can help you there.
He already did some work on getting explicit releases from the
authors.

Have fun,
Michael.

[Milos Jakubicek]

Hi Michael,

thank you for the work on audacious!

I've prepared a patch containing:

- license info for each source file
- small fix for gcc 4.3 build (just header includes)
- converts emd.[ch] from dos to unix file format (crlf => lf only)

You can download the patch from here:
http://mjakubicek.fedorapeople.org/imms/imms.patch

Regards,
Milos

[Michael Grigoriev]

Great, thanks a lot, Milos!
I applied the patch and generated rc8:
http://www.luminal.org/files/imms/imms-3.1.0-rc8.tar.bz2

Have fun,
Michael.