Bug 689588

Summary: Review Request: python-polygon - Handling of polygonal shapes in 2D
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Thomas Spura <tomspur>
Component: Package ReviewAssignee: Nobody's working on this, feel free to take it <nobody>
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Description Thomas Spura 2011-03-21 20:25:47 UTC
Spec URL: http://tomspur.fedorapeople.org/review/python-polygon.spec
SRPM URL: http://tomspur.fedorapeople.org/review/python-polygon-2.0.3-1.fc15.src.rpm
Description:
Polygon is a python package that handles polygons in 2D. It contains 
Python bindings for gpc, the excellent General Polygon Clipping Library by 
Alan Murta and some extensions written in C and pure Python. With Polygon you 
may handle complex polygonal areas in Python in a very intuitive way. Polygons 
are simple Python objects, clipping operations are bound to standard operators 
like +, -, \|, & and ^. TriStrips can be constructed from Polygons with a 
single statement. Functions to compute the area, center point, convex hull and 
much more are included.

$ rpmlint ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/python-polygon-* ~/rpmbuild/SRPMS/python-polygon-2.0.3-1.fc15.src.rpm 
python-polygon.x86_64: W: spelling-error %description -l en_US gpc -> GP
python-polygon.x86_64: W: invalid-license LGPL
python-polygon-debuginfo.x86_64: W: invalid-license LGPL
python-polygon.src: W: spelling-error %description -l en_US gpc -> GP
python-polygon.src: W: invalid-license LGPL
3 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 0 errors, 5 warnings.

Send a private mail to the author about the license version, for the moment it's only LGPL everywhere in the tarball.

Another issue is that polygon uses a private copy of gpc, requesting a exception from FPC (will post link here).

Comment 1 Thomas Spura 2011-03-21 20:37:36 UTC
https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/74

Comment 2 Jason Tibbitts 2011-03-21 20:48:54 UTC
The General Polygon Clipping library is non-free and not acceptable for Fedora due to its restriction to noncommercial use.

Comment 3 Thomas Spura 2011-03-21 20:55:06 UTC
I just send upstream a note about this and asked, if upstream can delete gpc and build a own polygon module...

Leaving open, till final decision from upstream.

Comment 4 Thomas Spura 2011-03-21 22:08:20 UTC
Next vpython version will make polygon optional.

-> closing