[opensource-dev] 3p-quicktime license and use

[Oz Linden (Scott Lawrence)]

On 2011-04-11 22:40, Nicky Perian wrote:
>
> Quicktime SDK is an INSTALL_PROPRIETARY=TRUE archive download. The LL 
> archive is modified to work with VS2010. The Apple Quicktime SDK has 
> not been modified and fails compile.
>

Can you expand on that last statement?


> I cloned 3p-quicktime and with autobuild build and package have the 
> libraries. The procedure worked extremely well.
>

Yay!


> Then, I modified autobuild.xml to point to the local copy. Now the 
> catch, since QuickTimePlugin.cmake has:
>
> if (INSTALL_PROPRIETARY)
>
> include(Prebuilt)
>
> use_prebuilt_binary(quicktime)
>
> endif(INSTALL_PROPRIETARY)
>
>
> What autobuild setup or command line switch do I use to access the 
> local copy?
>
> I commented out the if(INSTALL_PROPRIETARY) and then it pulled from 
> the local copy with autobuild.xml set to the location and md5sum 
> printed as output of autobuild package command.
>
> What are the planned methods to use local copies of what at one time 
> were proprietary or license restricted packages and now can be cloned 
> and built on a local computer and used?
>
> Also, does INSTALL_PROPRIETARY make sense when the end result is the 
> library is on the local computer and can be used?
>

This is a good general issue.

My feeling is that we should add a switch for each of these optional 
packages.  The per-package switch (in this case, perhaps 
INSTALL_PKG_QUICKTIME) would replace INSTALL_PROPRIETARY everywhere it 
is used to make a package-specific decision now, and in one of the 
common cmake files we add a block that provides default values for all 
the INSTALL_PKG_* switches based on INSTALL_PROPRIETARY.

We don't need to do this for every package - it's not worth the trouble 
to do it for things that everyone has access to, but having a pattern to 
use for the ones that have some distribution limitations seems useful.

Sound workable?

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