Spec URL: http://piedmont.homelinux.org/fedora/mp3gain/mp3gain.spec SRPM URL: http://piedmont.homelinux.org/fedora/mp3gain/mp3gain-1.4.6-1.src.rpm Description: MP3Gain analyzes and adjusts mp3 files so that they have the same volume. It does not just do peak normalization, as many normalizers do. Instead, it does some statistical analysis to determine how loud the file actually sounds to the human ear. Also, the changes MP3Gain makes are completely lossless. There is no quality lost in the change because the program adjusts the mp3 file directly, without decoding and re-encoding.
Trying to fetch Spec URL: Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at piedmont.homelinux.org.
Should be up right now. My router has been acting up for the last hour or so.
Still problem to download SRPM
Should be alright now. (Crosses fingers, and hopes stupid router doesn't act up again)
mock build is successfull but got rpmlint warning on binary rpm as W: mp3gain wrong-file-end-of-line-encoding /usr/share/doc/mp3gain-1.4.6/lgpl.txt
In my opinon that error can probably be ignored.
Is this package acceptable legally in Fedora Extras? I have not looked into this package and the first message says 'without decoding and re-encoding', so this may be acceptable. However, according to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Multimedia/MP3 it says that 'Fedora is unable to include support for the MP3'. So how do I think of this package?
(In reply to comment #6) > In my opinon that error can probably be ignored. Yes, but since it's so easy to fix in %prep with a little sed magic: %{__sed} -i 's/\r//' lgpl.txt
(In reply to comment #7) > Is this package acceptable legally in Fedora Extras? I believe it should be ok, since it doesn't decode or re-encode. Fedora includes packages (id3lib, python-eyed3, etc) that modify tags within mp3, which isn't terribly different from what this package does. I also looked at other distros (Ubuntu, Debian, gentoo), and they include it. I've been unable to find anything that states that mp3gain has any patent issues.
Just a note: don't make any acceptability conclusions based on something being included in other distros, the policies are different. For example, all the mentioned distros (and Mandriva) include support for actual MP3 decoding via libmad and a bunch of other things that are a no go for Fedora within the current policies.
I suggest you better discuss on fedora-extras mailing list.
Ok will take this for review
err but did you dicuss this package inclusion on Fedora-extras list?
(In reply to comment #11) > I suggest you better discuss on fedora-extras mailing list. Another idea is marking this bug as blocking FE-Legal (bug 182235) and asking Tom "spot" Callaway about this.
> I believe it should be ok, since it doesn't decode or re-encode. Hmm, the contents of ./mpglibDBL contradict. It is a modified mpg123 decoder library that is included and used.