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| = RPM Requests = Use this page to post a request for a package that you would like to see in the RPM Fusion repository. If a package can be included in Fedora, please submit the request to the [[http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/WishList|Fedora Wishlist]] or to the [[http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Games/WishList|Fedora Games SIG Wishlist]]. /!\ '''If you cannot say why a package cannot go in Fedora probably you shouldn't submit your request here but in one of the aforementioned wishlists.''' There is no guarantee that the package will be built, but it serves as a basis for maintainers looking for ideas on what to package next. Alternatively, please consider joining RPM Fusion and maintaining the package yourself. |
= Package Requests = Use this page to post a request for a packages that can't go to Fedora but would be nice to have in the RPM Fusion repository. For update requests or package enhancements use [[http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org|bugzilla]] please. /!\ '''Important Note:''' Package request that don't give a good reason why the package cannot go to Fedora will get '''[[WishlistRemoved|removed]] from this list immediately''' without further notice; if you are unsure if a package is suitable for Fedora then submit it to [[http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/WishList|Fedora Wishlist]]; alternatively ask Fedora or RPM Fusion contributors for advice! Note, there is no guarantee that package will be built, but it serves as a basis for maintainers looking for ideas on what to package next. But that doesn't happen very often, as you can guess from the length of this list. The best way to get a package into RPM Fusion quickly is to join RPM Fusion and maintaining the package yourself. |
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| Request: scli Summary: great SNMP command line utility (it uses gsnmp and MIB compiler smidump) URL: https://trac.eecs.iu-bremen.de/projects/scli/wiki Why not in Fedora: I don't know. |
Request: aacgain Summary: AACGain is a modification to the excellent mp3gain program. It supports AAC (mp4/m4a/QuickTime) audio files. URL: http://altosdesign.com/aacgain/ Why not in Fedora: Same reason mp3gain is not eligible; fear of patents. And it requires packages only available in rpm fusion. Notes: Should be a straight-forward addition }}} {{{ Request: acx100/acx111 Summary: Driver for Texas Instruments wireless device based URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/acx100/ Why not in Fedora: There are legal questions raised about the origin of that driver. }}} {{{ Request: Adobe ICC Profiles Summary: ICC profiles for use in gnome-color-manager URL: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/iccprofiles/iccprofiles_linux.html Why not in Fedora: Non-free license, but free to redistribute. Notes: OpenSUSE source RPM available at: http://download.opensuse.org/source/factory/repo/non-oss/suse/src/ }}} {{{ Request: Aegisub Summary: Subtitling+typesetting application with ASS/SSA support URL: http://www.aegisub.net/ Why not in Fedora: Depands on FFMpeg for video preview Notes: Fedora 10 rpm available but unstable: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost.php?p=1197600&postcount=7 }}} {{{ Request: amule adunanza Summary: software to use kad network for fastweb users Url: www.adunanza.net why not in fedora: could be legal problems with p2p software }}} {{{ Request: Antivir Summary: Antivir is a free and highly popular German virus scanner with one of the best detection rates on the market and e.g. available on openSUSE. URL: http://www.free-av.de/de/download/download_servers.php Why not in Fedora: Antivir is free, but not open. For private use only. }}} {{{ |
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Request: Broadcom linux_sta driver Summary: Broadcom's hybrid Linux driver for use with Broadcom BCM4312 based hardware (device ID 4315) URL: http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php Why not in Fedora: Like all other binary drivers Notes: Submitted RPM for review: https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96 Request: CDemu |
Notes: Review Request at https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167 }}} {{{ Request: ATI Stream SDK Summary: An SDK for OpenCL on ATI cards. URL: http://developer.amd.com/gpu/ATIStreamSDK/Pages/default.aspx Why not in Fedora: This is proprietary closed-source software. }}} {{{ Request: audacious-plugins-oss Summary: OSS part of audacious-plugins which is not included in Fedora's audacious-plugins URL: http://audacious-media-player.org/ Why not in Fedora: Fedora package maintainers think that OSS is legacy and thus have removed the oss-part. }}} {{{ Request: Audacity-Freeworld-1.3.9 Summary: music editing program with ffmpeg support built in URL: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Why not in Fedora: It comes with ffmpeg support and the default fedora doen't Notes: There is an old version that is built for fedora 11 but it doesn't work with the current ffmpeg library. }}} {{{ Request: AVG Summary: AVG is a free and popular virus scanner. URL: http://free.avg.com/gb-en/download.prd-afl Why not in Fedora: Free, but not open. Only for private use. }}} {{{ Request: Bombono DVD Summary: Easy to use program for making DVD-Video. The main features: MPEG viewer - Timeline and Monitor; WYSIWYG Menu Editor with live thumbnails; Drag-N-Drop support; folder, ISO or DVD creation; reauthoring. URL: http://www.bombono.org Why not in Fedora: mjpegtools dependence (due to MPEG2 Video patents) Notes: Spec file is ready: tools/scripts/bombono-dvd.spec. Dont hesitate to email the developer (me) - muravev dogg yandex dot ru }}} {{{ Request: CDemu (in progress) |
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| }}} {{{ Request: cairo (with patches to support cleartype filtering) Summary: A vector graphics library URL: http://cairographics.org Why not in Fedora: Patent issues regarding cleartype filtering Notes: this package should be part of a logical group of other patched packages supporting better subpixel rendering in Fedora, to bring up the font rendering to the level of Ubuntu, Windows XP/Vista and MacOS/X. These packages are: cairo, freetype, fontconfig, libXft (and maybe pixman, this should be checked). Source packages already exist with patches supporting these features for all the above packages at: ftp://brebs.me.uk/fedora/10/. Further info: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-186789.html }}} {{{ Request: cdrecord Summary: CD, DVD and BluRay recording software URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/cdrecord.html Why not in Fedora: Several questions in fedora-legal about the compatibility between CDDL and GPL. It did not pass legal review. Upstream allows and encourages free redistribution. Notes: This package should be packaged as an alternative for wodim. It uses a custom build system, bundled with the tarball. }}} {{{ Request: Chromium Summary: Open source version of Google's Chrome web browser URL: http://www.chromium.org/Home Why not in Fedora: due to legal concerns with some of the included code. This might not be an issue anymore. A person from FedoraProject packages Chromium in his spre time. http://spot.fedorapeople.org/chromium/ Notes: Google does provide a stable Chrome for Linux, but Chromium doesn't have the unique tracking ID that Google uses to identify users by, and Chromium doesn't send what you type in the omni box bar to Google, which Chrome does. That's why Chromium is to be prefured over Chrome. }}} {{{ Request: cinelerra Summary: One of the best video edition tools around URL: http://cinelerra.org/ Why not in Fedora: Well, this package uses a lot of codecs available in livna/rpmfusion, so, that's why. Notes: Review Request at https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118 }}} {{{ Request: clamdrib Summary: Adds clamav checking to Thunderbird URL: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/6663 Why not in Fedora: No method to contact original developer, no updates since March 2008. Notes: Changing install.rtf, doesn't help it work in latest T\B 3.0b4 Status appears in message toolbar, but no details if message clean\infected. }}} {{{ Request: ClipGrab Summary: ClipGrab is a tool to download the complete video or audio stream from diverse video portals like Youtube, Dailymotion and Vimeo. It is e.g. available in the openSUSE repositories. URL: http://clipgrab.de/info_en.html Why not in Fedora: Proprietary, formats (MP3, MPEG4). }}} {{{ Request: dahdi-linux Summary: Digium Asterisk Hardware Device Interface (DAHDI) linux kernel modules, firmware and documentation Why not in Fedora: While Fedora does package dahdi-tools, dahdi-linux contains kernel modules (and firmware) that are not part of the main kernel tree, and are not included in Fedora. Note that there is no need to package dahdi-tools as this would be redundant. A spec file that I use currently is here: https://messinet.com/svn/rpms/dahdi-linux/trunk/dahdi-linux.spec }}} {{{ |
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| }}} {{{ Request: DXX-Rebirth Summary: This is a Source Port of the Descent and Descent 2 Engines. URL: http://www.dxx-rebirth.com/ Why not in Fedora: Parallax License only allows non-commercial use of the source (http://dxx-rebirth.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/dxx-rebirth/trunk/d1x-rebirth/COPYING.txt?view=markup) }}} {{{ Request: easyMP3Gain Summary: A GUI for mp3Gain, aacGain, and vorbisGain to make gaining audio files just as easy as in windows URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/easymp3gain Why not in Fedora: mp3Gain isn't in Fedora either, so it's only natural that a GUI for it wouldn't be either. Notes: The project page has an RPM that already installs nicely into F10 and Rawhide. It would also be helpful to include aacGain in RPMFusion for completion. }}} {{{ Request: FASTA Summary: The FASTA programs find regions of local or global (new) similarity between Protein or DNA sequences URL: http://fasta.bioch.virginia.edu/fasta_www2/fasta_down.shtml Why not in Fedora: Was originally on Fedora wishlist, but removed because of non-commercial clause in license: http://faculty.virginia.edu/wrpearson/fasta/COPYRIGHT Notes: removal from Fedora wishlist: https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=SIGs/SciTech/BioinformaticsWishList&diff=0&oldid=34579 }}} {{{ Request: fceux Summary: An 8-bit NES Emulator considered an evolution of fceu. URL: http://fceux.com Why not in Fedora: Emulators are not allowed in Fedora. Notes: Includes a version of gfceu named gfceux as a GTK frontend. }}} {{{ Request: Frets on Fire Summary: Frets on Fire is a game of musical skill and fast fingers. The aim of the game is to play guitar with the keyboard as accurately as possible. URL: http://fretsonfire.sourceforge.net/ Why not in Fedora: As described in the Games Blacklist "Patent issues prevent us from including it." }}} {{{ Request: flac2mp3 Summary: Tool to convert potentially large sets of FLAC audio files into the MP3 format URL: http://bytemonkey.org/flac2mp3/ Why not in Fedora: MP3 Notes: source rpm available at http://cachalot.mine.nu/10/SRPMS/ }}} {{{ Request: FreeCAD Summary: FreeCAD is a highly sophisticated CAD editor for mechanical engineering and product design. It is based on OpenCascade (if included the OpenCascade item can probably be removed as well) and should be packaged in the repo, since a good CAD editor is frequently requested by the community. URL: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/free-cad/index.php?title=Main_Page Why not in Fedora: Same as OpenCascade. Furthermore, it is stroked through on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/WishList Rahul Sundaram guessed it could have been licensing issues in the past (cmp. http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=221294&page=12) }}} {{{ Request: FreeMat Summary: FreeMat is an application for scientific prototyping similar to Matlab and IDL. URL: http://freemat.sourceforge.net/ Why not in Fedora: Not sure, but it is stroked through on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/WishList Rahul Sundaram guessed it could have been licensing issues in the past (cmp. http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=221294&page=12) }}} {{{ Request: freetype (with patches to support subpixel rendering and bytecode interpreter) Summary: A free and portable font rendering engine URL: http://www.freetype.org Why not in Fedora: Patent issues regarding cleartype filtering and bytecode interpreter Notes: this package should be part of a logical group of other patched packages supporting better subpixel rendering in Fedora, to bring up the font rendering to the level of Ubuntu, Windows XP/Vista and MacOS/X. These packages are: cairo, freetype, fontconfig, libXft (and maybe pixman, this should be checked). Source packages already exist with patches supporting these features for all the above packages at: ftp://brebs.me.uk/fedora/10/. Further info: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-186789.html }}} {{{ Request: fontconfig (with updated configuration to make use of available cleartype rendering and bytecode interpreter features) Summary: Font configuration and customization library URL: http://fontconfig.org Why not in Fedora: Because the default packages do not provide these features. Notes: this package should be part of a logical group of other patched packages supporting better subpixel rendering in Fedora, to bring up the font rendering to the level of Ubuntu, Windows XP/Vista and MacOS/X. These packages are: cairo, freetype, fontconfig, libXft (and maybe pixman, this should be checked). Source packages already exist with patches supporting these features for all the above packages at: ftp://brebs.me.uk/fedora/10/. Further info: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-186789.html }}} {{{ |
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| }}} {{{ Request: GAP (gimp gap) Summary: GAP is an advanced tool to be able to create animations, this guide should give you some sort of view of how GAP works and what you can do with it URL: ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/plug-ins/v2.4/gap Why not in Fedora: cause it need xvidcore lib }}} {{{ Request: get-flash-videos Summary: Downloaded videos from YouTube, eHow, Brightcove (used by many sites like Channel 4, Daily Telegraph ...), BBC (news, etc), Metacafe, 5min, Google, fliqz, nicovideo, vimeo, Blip, Break, Collegehumor, Muzu, Sevenload, Megavideo, Wat.tv. URL: http://code.google.com/p/get-flash-videos/ Why not in Fedora: Likely because it downloads videos in closed source formats like h.264 }}} {{{ Request: gloss Summary: a drop-in replacement for the existing MythTV frontend URL: http://www.ohloh.net/p/gloss-mc Why not in Fedora: needs mythtv which is in rpmfusion }}} {{{ |
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| }}} {{{ Request: gnome-do Docky (and docklets) Summary: Docky is a frontend for GNOME Do (Do) that introduces an entirely new way to interact with Do. Docky helps Do become more directly involved with your desktop by providing a persistent mouse based Dock interface while remaining true to Do's keyboard only interaction. URL: http://do.davebsd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Docky Why not in Fedora: Docky (part of package gnome-do) was removed from fedora due to patent violations (US Patent 7434177). Docklets are used by Dock. Notes: This is very nice interface, replacement for gnome taskbar. }}} {{{ Request: GoalBit Summary: GoalBit is a peer to peer distribution system, capable of distributing high-bandwidth live-content to all network peers preserving its quality. URL: http://goalbit.sourceforge.net/ Why not in Fedora: Depands on codecs available in rpmfusion. }}} {{{ Request: gstreamer-pitfdll Summary: GStreamer plugin that allows the use of binary files, such as Quicktime QTX or Directshow/DMO DLL files. URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pitfdll/ Why not in Fedora: Probably because of codecs }}} {{{ Request: libsox-fmt-all Summary: The complete set of sox format codecs URL: http://sox.sourceforge.net/, http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/libsox-fmt-all Why not in Fedora: Well, mp3 can't be redistributed blah blah kinda stuff. Notes: Ubuntu provides all the libsox-fmt codecs. We should also (besides, they have a .deb so it should be fairly easy to translate) }}} {{{ Request: HandBrake (in progress) Summary: An open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 converter, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows. URL: http://handbrake.fr/ Why not in Fedora: Contains implementations of encoders and decoders for patented algorithms (e.g. MP3). Notes: This comes in both a CLI and GUI version, which would both be useful. Also, it requires libdvdcss to read DVDs directly. The default makefile downloads all it's own copies of all the multimedia libs, the challenging part here to get it to use the existing rpmfusion libraries as dependencies instead. }}} {{{ Request: iFolder Summary: rsync type of backup, but for desktops. URL: http://www.kablink.org/ifolder Why not in Fedora: Probably because it is developed by Novell/Suse. Notes: There exist many howtos on installing iFolder, but none for Fedora. http://blog.casalogic.dk/2010/06/ifolder/ http://www.x2b4.com/howto/how-to-install-ifolder-on-ubuntu-server/ }}} {{{ Request: JavaFX Summary: JavaFX is a competitor to Flash and Silverlight entirely based on Flash. While RPMFusion made clear not to include SunJDK, which can be easily replaced by OpenJDK, there is no open replacement for JavaFX and there has already been a petition to make it freely available as well. URL: http://java.sun.com/javafx/downloads/ Why not in Fedora: Proprietary. }}} {{{ Request: libtxc_dxtn library Summary: DXTn software compression/decompression library URL: http://homepage.hispeed.ch/rscheidegger/dri_experimental/s3tc_index.html Why not in Fedora: Patent issue Notes: This library provides software compression/decompression needed by Mesa llvmpipe. If this library is not installed glxinfo complains about it : "couldn't open libtxc_dxtn.so, software DXTn compression/decompression unavailable" }}} {{{ Request: libXft (with cleartype filtering patches) Summary: X.Org X11 libXft runtime library URL: http://www.x.org Why not in Fedora: Patent issues regarding cleartype filtering Notes: this package should be part of a logical group of other patched packages supporting better subpixel rendering in Fedora, to bring up the font rendering to the level of Ubuntu, Windows XP/Vista and MacOS/X. These packages are: cairo, freetype, fontconfig, libXft (and maybe pixman, this should be checked). Source packages already exist with patches supporting these features for all the above packages at: ftp://brebs.me.uk/fedora/10/. Further info: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-186789.html }}} {{{ Request: LiVES Summary: LiVES is a Free, Open Source video editor *and* a VJ tool, using less resources than cinelerra. URL: http://lives.sourceforge.net/ Why not in Fedora: Codecs used, as usual... Notes: rpms available from sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=64341&package_id=198331 }}} {{{ Request: LÖVE Summary: LOVE is a free 2D game engine which enables easy game creation in Lua. URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/love/ URL: http://www.love2d.org/ Why not in Fedora: The current Mercurial snapshot needs mpg123 (mpg321) to be built, mpg321 is provided by RPMFusion. Notes: To be built, mpg321-devel is needed, but this package can't be found in RPMFusion Repo. }}} {{{ |
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Notes: Review Request at https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436 }}} {{{ Request: mencoder with aac encoding support Summary: video converter URL: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html Why not in Fedora: mencoder is part of mplayer, faac encoder is nonfree }}} {{{ Request: Mixxx-1.7.2 Summary: Mixxx is a dj program URL: http://www.mixxx.org/download.php Notes: I tried to compile myself with no success (I have no idea what I'm doing) }}} {{{ Request: mpg123 1.12.1 Summary: The original mpg123 mp3 encoder/decoder with a shared library URL: http://www.mpg123.de Why not in Fedora: MP3 is patented, nothing related to MP3 encoding/decoding is allowed in Fedora. Notes: Wine 1.1.29 and up uses dlopened libmpg123 to decode MP3. Previously, Fedora's version of Wine needed constant patching by the maintainer to remove the built-in MP3 facilities. }}} {{{ Request: Mupen64 Summary: Nintendo 64 emulator URL: http://mupen64.emulation64.com/ Why not in Fedora: Emulators are not permitted in Fedora Notes: This one was at Dribble but it is not in RPM Fusion. Mupen64 seems to work only on i386 and there are no updates on the project home page in the last 3 years. There is an active fork, called mupen64plus (see below). }}} {{{ Request: Mupen64Plus Summary: Nintendo 64 emulator URL: http://code.google.com/p/mupen64plus/ Why not in Fedora: Emulators are not permitted in Fedora Notes: Review Request at http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=303 }}} {{{ Request: mythtv-status Summary: Scripts that display the current status of your MythTV system URL: http://www.etc.gen.nz/projects/mythtv/mythtv-status.html Why not in Fedora: Needs mythtv which is in rpmfusion Notes: Review Request: http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=539 }}} {{{ Request: Mythvodka Summary: a plugin for MythTV allowing streaming of BBC iPlayer, Hulu, HTTP and NZB content. URL: http://code.google.com/p/mythvodka/ Why not in Fedora: Depends on mythtv, not packaged in fedora due to encumbered codecs Notes: hulu support is in flux ... }}} {{{ |
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Request: OpenTTD Summary: OpenTTD is a clone of the Microprose game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe" URL: http://www.openttd.org Why not in Fedora: Requires Abandonware data files Notes: A fedora package is available at Hany's repository: http://hany.sk/~hany/_data/SRPM/doors-f7/ |
}}} {{{ Request: Nvidia CUDA Summary: Nvidia's CUDA technology enables the GPU to be used for various complex scientific computations. URL: http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_get.html Why not in Fedora: Free but not open-source Notes: Review Request at https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=459 }}} {{{ Request: Nvidia Drivers version 256.35 Summary: Latest version of Nvidia's drivers URL: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=122606 Why not in Fedora: Free but not open-source Notes: Released by Nvidia on 16-June-2010. This will cure a longstanding bug: googleearth crashes at startup. }}} {{{ Request: Nvidia legacy Summary: Nvidia closed source driver for legacy cards URL: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_71.86.13.html Why not in Fedora: This is propitiatory closed source driver from Nvidia. Notes: At the moment Other drivers from Nvidia are packaged by rpmfusion but legacy driver is not. The open source nouveau driver still does not support 3D acceleration for these older cards like Riva TNT etc. Now that Nvidia has added support for newer kernel and Xorg 1.6/1.7 support it makes sense to start packaging these again. At least until nouveau support all the features. }}} {{{ Request: Nvidia legacy 173.x Summary: Nvidia closed source driver for legacy cards URL: http://www.nvidia.de/object/linux-display-ia32-173.14.27-driver-de.html Why not in Fedora: This is propitiatory closed source driver from Nvidia. Notes: At the moment Other drivers from Nvidia are packaged by rpmfusion but legacy driver is not. The open source nouveau driver still does not support 3D acceleration for these older cards like Riva TNT etc. Now that Nvidia has added support for newer kernel and Xorg 1.8 support it makes sense to start packaging these again. At least until nouveau support all the features. Not only misses nouveau 3D features, also the 2D Performance of this driver is horrible for older Nvidia graphic adapters. This legacy driver improves performance extremely. }}} {{{ Request: OpenCascade Summary: OpenCascade is a professional software development platform for CAD/CAM/CAE. URL: http://www.opencascade.org/getocc/download/loadocc/ Why not in Fedora: Need to register before download, only private use. }}} {{{ Request: OpenShot Video Editor Summary: A free and open source non-linear video editor URL: http://www.openshotvideo.com/ Why not in Fedora: It depends on packages that are not available in Fedora (ffmpeg, mlt). Notes: Working test spec and rpm files at http://killobyte.com/openshot/ }}} {{{ Request: OpenSSL with Elliptic Curve, IDEA, MDC-2, RC5 crypto algorithms Summary: The OpenSSL toolkit provides support for secure communications between machines. URL: http://www.openssl.org/ Why not in Fedora: Because of the problem with software patents: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=319901 Notes: OpenSSL is included in Fedora but with Elliptic Curve, IDEA, MDC-2, RC5 crypto algorithms disabled. }}} {{{ Request: Open Movie Editor Summary: Open Movie Editor is a free and open source video editing program, designed for basic movie making capabilities. It aims do be powerful enough for the amateur movie artist, yet easy to use. URL: http://www.openmovieeditor.org/ Why not in Fedora: The codecs it uses are not compatible with fedora's license. Notes: rpm already available in opensuse through the packman repos: http://packman.links2linux.de/package/OpenMovieEditor }}} {{{ Request: Opera Summary: A popular web browser and Internet suite. URL: http://www.opera.com/ Why not in Fedora: nonfree Notes: Opera distributes both, tarball archives and rpms for Fedora and EPEL on their download pages (e.g. http://www.opera.com/browser/download/?os=linux-i386&ver=9.63&local=y for i386). Also, they welcome if anyone wants to mirror their packages (http://www.opera.com/download/mirrors/), but it doesn't say anything about if they allow repackaging and such. }}} {{{ Request: ORX Summary: Orx is a portable, lightweight, plugin-based, data-driven and extremely easy to use 2D-oriented game engine. URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/orx/ URL: http://orx-project.org/ Why not in Fedora: Needs SFML and Box2D, both not provided by the Fedora repo. }}} {{{ |
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Request: sidplay2 (review submitted at Dribble: BZ #122, BZ #123) Summary: A cycle-exact version of sidplay (which is in Extras) also utilizing C64 ROMs URL: http://sidplay2.sourceforge.net/ Why not in Fedora: Emulators are not permitted Fedora Notes: Needs libsidplay2 to be packaged as it's not available in upstream repos |
}}} {{{ Request: Skype Summary: Skype is a very popular teleconferencing application. It has some questionable properties, but is one of the few apps to make calls to landlines. It is e.g. available in the Canonical partner repository. URL: http://www.skype.com/intl/en/get-skype/ http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-beta-fc10 Why not in Fedora: Skype is free, but proprietary and thus closed source. They have been engaged in censorship in China, preferred Intel users etc. }}} {{{ Request: SmartGit Summary: SmartGit is a front-end for the distributed version control system Git. It is intended for developers who prefer a graphical user interface over a command line client, to be even more productive with Git — the most powerful DVCS today. URL: http://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/index.html Why not in Fedora: There are legal questions raised about the origin of that software. }}} {{{ Request: smplayer-themes Summary: This package provides icon themes for SMPlayer. URL: http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/downloads.php?tr_lang=en Why not in Fedora: requires packages only available in rpmfusion, is very cool and easy to build and packing Notes: I got a .spec, here http://sergiomb.no-ip.org/specs/smplayer-themes.spec, which builds smplayer-themes-0.1.19.tar.bz2 into rpms. Answer: There are many mixed licenses in the "free" package, eg. GPL, LGPL, Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license, Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License. Someone with proper understanding of mixing licenses needs to look deeper into this (SebastianVahl - smplayer maintainer). }}} {{{ |
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| Summary: The Snack Sound Toolkit is designed to be used with a scripting language such as Tcl/Tk or Python. Using Snack you can create powerful multi-platform audio applications with just a few lines of code. | Summary: The Snack Sound Toolkit is designed to be used with a scripting language such as Tcl/Tk or Python. Using Snack you can create powerful multi-platform audio applications with just a few lines of code. |
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Request: SpcaGui Summary: A nice VideoGrabber vor Spca5xx-devices. URL: http://mxhaard.free.fr/download.html Why not in Fedora: It's a nice, small Gui for the Spca5xx-driver which is already in livna. Request: spcaview & Spcaserv & Spcacat Summary: A set of tools for the spca5xx module URL: http://mxhaard.free.fr/sview.html Why not in Fedora: The driver (spca) is already included (in livna) but for good use, this tools are required. Request: Visual Boy Advance Summary: A Gamboy Advance Emulator URL: http://vba.ngemu.com/ |
}}} {{{ Request: snes9x-gtk Summary: A graphical user interface for Snes9x URL: http://code.google.com/p/snes9x-gtk Why not in Fedora: There is no snes9x itself in Fedora repositories and no GUIs for the same reason. Notes: THIS IS NOT A DOUBLE! snes9x and snes9x-gtk are different packages. }}} {{{ Request: sox (with mp3 support) Summary: SoX is a media converter. It also ships with play, a player which play all format that SoX support and have bunch of cool effects. URL: http://sox.sourceforge.net/ Why not in Fedora: It is in, but compiled without liblame or libmad. }}} {{{ Request: StepMania 3.9 Summary: Game similar to Dance Dance Revolution where user can add/create steps and songs URL: http://www.stepmania.com/ Why not in Fedora: Uses mp3 files for music }}} {{{ Request: swarmplayer Summary: Stream video over a peer-to-peer bittorrent network URL: http://trial.p2p-next.org/linux/ Why not in Fedora: It requires vlc and python-vlc }}} {{{ Request: swftools Summary: SWFTools is a collection of utilities for working with Adobe Flash files (SWF files). The tool collection includes programs for reading SWF files, combining them, and creating them from other content (like images, sound files, videos or sourcecode). SWFTools is released under the GPL. URL: http://www.swftools.org Why not in Fedora: it requires lame to encode mp3. }}} {{{ Request: tp_smapi Summary: Exposes parts of the Thinkpad BIOS to Linux, such as battery charging limits. URL: http://tpctl.sourceforge.net/ Why not in Fedora: Fedora won't ship kernel modules Notes: Someone on Fedora people has already built a kmod and akmod package for Fedora, http://ndim.fedorapeople.org/packages/tp_smapi-kmod/ . }}} {{{ Request: VIA Chrome9 drm kmod/akmod Summary: provide DRM support for VIA Chrome9 graphic card URL: http://linux.via.com.tw/support/downloadFiles.action, choose CN896, Ubuntu 8.10, link: Chrome9 DRM source for kernel Why not in Fedora: Fedora won't ship kernel modules Notes: urgently needed for running Chrome9 GPUs with VIA proprietary driver. Even if users manage to get those drivers manually running, they need to build the module when kernel updates arrive through updates. }}} {{{ Request: VIA Chrome9/UniChrome proprietary 3D Xorg driver. Summary: provide Xorg 3D driver for VIA Chrome9/UniChrome URL: http://linux.via.com.tw/support/downloadFiles.action, choose CN896, Ubuntu 8.10, link: Unified GFX driver Ver 85a-44597 Why not in Fedora: restricted driver Notes: Although only available for Ubuntu 8.10, they also work for Fedora. Confirmed for HP 2133, see http://hp2133.umsw.de, section 11b. Issues with SELinux, also with OpenGL and RandR (both only when using compiz). 2D driver works better with RandR but is known to cause system freezes. Options/switches for xorg.conf not well documented. 3D driver needs VIA Chrome9 drm module, 2D may run without it, thus poor performance playing videos etc. }}} {{{ Request: Veejay Summary: visual instrument and realtime video sampler URL: http://www.veejayhq.net/ Why not in Fedora: The engine is based upon ffmpeg and the mjpegtools }}} {{{ Request: vdr-softdevice (ShmClient) Summary: Plugin for vdr which enables output via X11-Xv. With it you can use ShmClient to get vdr output with budget-only hardware (without a hardware MPEG-decoder). URL: http://softdevice.berlios.de/ Why not in Fedora: It uses ffpmeg to decode the MPEG-stream. }}} {{{ Request: VisualBoyAdvance Merge (VBA-M) Summary: Nintendo Gameboy, Gameboy Color, and Gameboy Advance Emulator URL: http://vba-m.ngemu.com/ |
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Notes: Review Request: https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=440 }}} {{{ Request: vlc-plugin Summary: display vlc streams inn Firefox URL: http://www.videolan.org Why not in Fedora: requires vlc Notes: Already provided by rpmfusion as mozilla-vlc }}} {{{ |
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Request: xsnow Summary: Xsnow is the X-windows application that will let it snow on the root, in between and on windows. Santa and his reindeer will complete your festive-season feeling. URL: http://dropmix.xs4all.nl/rick/Xsnow/ Why not in Fedora: Unclear license, probably shareware-like. Freely distributable, but not Free Software Notes: A specfile for fedora available at http://users.linpro.no/ingvar/xsnow.spec |
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{{{ Request: zfs-fuse Summary: ZFS Filesystem for FUSE/Linux URL: http://www.wizy.org/wiki/ZFS_on_FUSE Why not in Fedora: Stopped in legal pending decision of whether patents block the inclusion in Fedora. Notes: rpm packages for zfs-fuse 0.5.0 have already been produced by Uwe Kubosch who also wishes to maintain the package. }}} |
{{{ Request: xvidenc Summary: the interactive shell script ripper URL: xvidenc.sourceforge.net/ Why not in Fedora: depends on some multimedia codecs Notes: similar to h264enc but for xvid }}} |
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== Requests that should be moved to Fedora == The following requests should probably be moved to the [[http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/WishList|Fedora Wishlist]]. Most of them do not have specified why they cannot go in Fedora. {{{ Request: gnome-do 0.5 Summary: is an intelligent launcher tool that makes performing common tasks on your computer simple and efficient. URL: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GnomeDo Why not in Fedora: Requires an updated gtk-sharp2, gnome-sharp and gnome-desktop-sharp. [It is not RPM Fusion policy to update Fedora packages] Request: libtorrent 0.13 Summary: LibTorrent is a BitTorrent library written in C++ for *nix, with a focus on high performance and good code. The library differentiates itself from other implementations by transfering directly from file pages to the network stack. On high-bandwidth connections it is able to seed at 3 times the speed of the official client. URL: http://qbittorrent.sourceforge.net/download.php Why not in Fedora: fedora does not supply 0.13,,only 0.11.8 [Not true: libtorrent you request is not the same libtorrent that already is in Fedora] Notes: Package is needed to compile qbittorrent Request: pyscrabble Summary: An online multiplayer clone of the game Scrabble URL: http://pyscrabble.sourceforge.net/ Why not in Fedora: Request: qbittorrent Summary: qBittorrent can now be considered as a good alternative to other bittorrent clients. It provides a lot of features such as: URL: http://qbittorrent.sourceforge.net/download.php Why not in Fedora: no idea,, this is an awsome good looking p2p torrent client. Notes: libtorrent 0.13 is required, this can be found on: http://qbittorrent.sourceforge.net/download.php Request: Q DVD Author Summary: A QT frontend for DVD authoring URL: http://qdvdauthor.sourceforge.net/ Why not in Fedora: Notes: Seems far too unstable and quirky as yet, to be worth building Request: SnortSam Summary: SnortSam is a plugin for Snort. Plugin allows for automated blocking of IP addresses on firewalls URL: http://www.snortsam.net/ Why not in Fedora: Request: TorK Summary: Anonymity manager for the KDE Desktop on Linux and Unix systems. URL: http://www.anonymityanywhere.com/tork/ Why not in Fedora: Request: waste Summary: WASTE is a software product and protocol that enables secure distributed communication for small (on the order of 10-50 nodes) trusted groups of users. URL: http://waste.sf.net/ Why not in Fedora: Perhaps the most secure P2P connection and Protocol, presently under development }}} |
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}}} {{{ Request: libdvdcss Summary: A library for accessing and unscrambling DVDs encrypted with the Content Scramble System (CSS) URL: http://www.videolan.org/developers/libdvdcss.html Why not in RPM Fusion: The short story is: It was agreed on not to ship it due to various reasons around the fact that libdvdcss is a bit more complicated (or dangerous) than all the other software RPM Fusion offers have. The long story and all the arguments for and against shipping it can be found in the mailing lists archives. Livna and Freshrpms will provide libdvdcss for the forseeable future. }}} {{{ Request: ipset Summary: A pgm to set the list of ip ranges used in iptables/ipmodules URL: http://ipset.netfilter.org/ Why not in RPM Fusion: xtables-addons will provide ipset in the foreseeable future. }}} {{{ Request: java-1.6.0-sun Summary: Sun JDK Runtime Environment URL: http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp Notes: self-build instructions for the latest Sun JDK at http://www.city-fan.org/tips/SunJava6OnFedora Why not in RPM Fusion: restrictions on redistribution; the license at the time of writing can be found at: http://java.sun.com/javase/6/jdk-6u18-license.txt It includes terms (in the "License to Distribute Redistributables" section) like: (iii) you do not distribute additional software intended to supersede any component(s) of the Redistributables (this would include free Java implementations such as are already included in Fedora) (vi) you agree to defend and indemnify Sun and its licensors from and against any damages, costs, liabilities, settlement amounts and/or expenses (including attorneys' fees) incurred in connection with any claim, lawsuit or action by any third party that arises or results from the use or distribution of any and all Programs and/or Software (nobody at RPM Fusion is likely to agree to that) }}} |
Package Requests
Use this page to post a request for a packages that can't go to Fedora but would be nice to have in the RPM Fusion repository. For update requests or package enhancements use bugzilla please.
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Important Note: Package request that don't give a good reason why the package cannot go to Fedora will get removed from this list immediately without further notice; if you are unsure if a package is suitable for Fedora then submit it to Fedora Wishlist; alternatively ask Fedora or RPM Fusion contributors for advice!
Note, there is no guarantee that package will be built, but it serves as a basis for maintainers looking for ideas on what to package next. But that doesn't happen very often, as you can guess from the length of this list. The best way to get a package into RPM Fusion quickly is to join RPM Fusion and maintaining the package yourself.
Please edit this page to add a new request ensuring the layout is maintained. For example:
Request: foo Summary: A program that does all sorts of foo URL: http://www.example.com Why not in Fedora: Explanation why this package is not eligible as a regular package in the Fedora repositories; packages request without a proper explanation will get removed from this list immediately! Notes: Optional notes section which may be useful for potential packagers
Requests will be removed where an RPM already exists in Fedora or RPM Fusion itself.
Current Requests
Place your current requests here, in alphabetical order.
Request: aacgain Summary: AACGain is a modification to the excellent mp3gain program. It supports AAC (mp4/m4a/QuickTime) audio files. URL: http://altosdesign.com/aacgain/ Why not in Fedora: Same reason mp3gain is not eligible; fear of patents. And it requires packages only available in rpm fusion. Notes: Should be a straight-forward addition
Request: acx100/acx111 Summary: Driver for Texas Instruments wireless device based URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/acx100/ Why not in Fedora: There are legal questions raised about the origin of that driver.
Request: Adobe ICC Profiles Summary: ICC profiles for use in gnome-color-manager URL: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/iccprofiles/iccprofiles_linux.html Why not in Fedora: Non-free license, but free to redistribute. Notes: OpenSUSE source RPM available at: http://download.opensuse.org/source/factory/repo/non-oss/suse/src/
Request: Aegisub Summary: Subtitling+typesetting application with ASS/SSA support URL: http://www.aegisub.net/ Why not in Fedora: Depands on FFMpeg for video preview Notes: Fedora 10 rpm available but unstable: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost.php?p=1197600&postcount=7
Request: amule adunanza Summary: software to use kad network for fastweb users Url: www.adunanza.net why not in fedora: could be legal problems with p2p software
Request: Antivir Summary: Antivir is a free and highly popular German virus scanner with one of the best detection rates on the market and e.g. available on openSUSE. URL: http://www.free-av.de/de/download/download_servers.php Why not in Fedora: Antivir is free, but not open. For private use only.
Request: anyremote-j2me-client Summary: J2ME client for anyRemote (bluetooth remote control for PC) URL: http://anyremote.sourceforge.net/ Why not in Fedora: anyremote-j2me-client uses Sun WTK (which is free, but not open-source) for build. Notes: Review Request at https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167
Request: ATI Stream SDK Summary: An SDK for OpenCL on ATI cards. URL: http://developer.amd.com/gpu/ATIStreamSDK/Pages/default.aspx Why not in Fedora: This is proprietary closed-source software.
Request: audacious-plugins-oss Summary: OSS part of audacious-plugins which is not included in Fedora's audacious-plugins URL: http://audacious-media-player.org/ Why not in Fedora: Fedora package maintainers think that OSS is legacy and thus have removed the oss-part.
Request: Audacity-Freeworld-1.3.9 Summary: music editing program with ffmpeg support built in URL: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Why not in Fedora: It comes with ffmpeg support and the default fedora doen't Notes: There is an old version that is built for fedora 11 but it doesn't work with the current ffmpeg library.
Request: AVG Summary: AVG is a free and popular virus scanner. URL: http://free.avg.com/gb-en/download.prd-afl Why not in Fedora: Free, but not open. Only for private use.
Request: Bombono DVD Summary: Easy to use program for making DVD-Video. The main features: MPEG viewer - Timeline and Monitor; WYSIWYG Menu Editor with live thumbnails; Drag-N-Drop support; folder, ISO or DVD creation; reauthoring. URL: http://www.bombono.org Why not in Fedora: mjpegtools dependence (due to MPEG2 Video patents) Notes: Spec file is ready: tools/scripts/bombono-dvd.spec. Dont hesitate to email the developer (me) - muravev dogg yandex dot ru
Request: CDemu (in progress) Summary: a kernel module simulate a CD drive + CD from cue/bin files URL: http://cdemu.sourceforge.net/ Why not in Fedora: Fedora won't ship the kernel modules (RH #177583).
Request: cairo (with patches to support cleartype filtering) Summary: A vector graphics library URL: http://cairographics.org Why not in Fedora: Patent issues regarding cleartype filtering Notes: this package should be part of a logical group of other patched packages supporting better subpixel rendering in Fedora, to bring up the font rendering to the level of Ubuntu, Windows XP/Vista and MacOS/X. These packages are: cairo, freetype, fontconfig, libXft (and maybe pixman, this should be checked). Source packages already exist with patches supporting these features for all the above packages at: ftp://brebs.me.uk/fedora/10/. Further info: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-186789.html
Request: cdrecord Summary: CD, DVD and BluRay recording software URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/cdrecord.html Why not in Fedora: Several questions in fedora-legal about the compatibility between CDDL and GPL. It did not pass legal review. Upstream allows and encourages free redistribution. Notes: This package should be packaged as an alternative for wodim. It uses a custom build system, bundled with the tarball.
Request: Chromium Summary: Open source version of Google's Chrome web browser URL: http://www.chromium.org/Home Why not in Fedora: due to legal concerns with some of the included code. This might not be an issue anymore. A person from FedoraProject packages Chromium in his spre time. http://spot.fedorapeople.org/chromium/ Notes: Google does provide a stable Chrome for Linux, but Chromium doesn't have the unique tracking ID that Google uses to identify users by, and Chromium doesn't send what you type in the omni box bar to Google, which Chrome does. That's why Chromium is to be prefured over Chrome.
Request: cinelerra Summary: One of the best video edition tools around URL: http://cinelerra.org/ Why not in Fedora: Well, this package uses a lot of codecs available in livna/rpmfusion, so, that's why. Notes: Review Request at https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118
Request: clamdrib Summary: Adds clamav checking to Thunderbird URL: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/6663 Why not in Fedora: No method to contact original developer, no updates since March 2008. Notes: Changing install.rtf, doesn't help it work in latest T\B 3.0b4 Status appears in message toolbar, but no details if message clean\infected.
Request: ClipGrab Summary: ClipGrab is a tool to download the complete video or audio stream from diverse video portals like Youtube, Dailymotion and Vimeo. It is e.g. available in the openSUSE repositories. URL: http://clipgrab.de/info_en.html Why not in Fedora: Proprietary, formats (MP3, MPEG4).
Request: dahdi-linux Summary: Digium Asterisk Hardware Device Interface (DAHDI) linux kernel modules, firmware and documentation Why not in Fedora: While Fedora does package dahdi-tools, dahdi-linux contains kernel modules (and firmware) that are not part of the main kernel tree, and are not included in Fedora. Note that there is no need to package dahdi-tools as this would be redundant. A spec file that I use currently is here: https://messinet.com/svn/rpms/dahdi-linux/trunk/dahdi-linux.spec
Request: Doom Legacy 2.0 Summary: SDL Open GL Doom Source port (WIP refer to the legacy forum or svn directory) URL: http://legacy.newdoom.com Why not in Fedora: Requires a commercial or shareware version of either DOOM, Ultimate DOOM or DOOM2
Request: DXX-Rebirth Summary: This is a Source Port of the Descent and Descent 2 Engines. URL: http://www.dxx-rebirth.com/ Why not in Fedora: Parallax License only allows non-commercial use of the source (http://dxx-rebirth.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/dxx-rebirth/trunk/d1x-rebirth/COPYING.txt?view=markup)
Request: easyMP3Gain Summary: A GUI for mp3Gain, aacGain, and vorbisGain to make gaining audio files just as easy as in windows URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/easymp3gain Why not in Fedora: mp3Gain isn't in Fedora either, so it's only natural that a GUI for it wouldn't be either. Notes: The project page has an RPM that already installs nicely into F10 and Rawhide. It would also be helpful to include aacGain in RPMFusion for completion.
Request: FASTA Summary: The FASTA programs find regions of local or global (new) similarity between Protein or DNA sequences URL: http://fasta.bioch.virginia.edu/fasta_www2/fasta_down.shtml Why not in Fedora: Was originally on Fedora wishlist, but removed because of non-commercial clause in license: http://faculty.virginia.edu/wrpearson/fasta/COPYRIGHT Notes: removal from Fedora wishlist: https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=SIGs/SciTech/BioinformaticsWishList&diff=0&oldid=34579
Request: fceux Summary: An 8-bit NES Emulator considered an evolution of fceu. URL: http://fceux.com Why not in Fedora: Emulators are not allowed in Fedora. Notes: Includes a version of gfceu named gfceux as a GTK frontend.
Request: Frets on Fire Summary: Frets on Fire is a game of musical skill and fast fingers. The aim of the game is to play guitar with the keyboard as accurately as possible. URL: http://fretsonfire.sourceforge.net/ Why not in Fedora: As described in the Games Blacklist "Patent issues prevent us from including it."
Request: flac2mp3 Summary: Tool to convert potentially large sets of FLAC audio files into the MP3 format URL: http://bytemonkey.org/flac2mp3/ Why not in Fedora: MP3 Notes: source rpm available at http://cachalot.mine.nu/10/SRPMS/
Request: FreeCAD Summary: FreeCAD is a highly sophisticated CAD editor for mechanical engineering and product design. It is based on OpenCascade (if included the OpenCascade item can probably be removed as well) and should be packaged in the repo, since a good CAD editor is frequently requested by the community. URL: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/free-cad/index.php?title=Main_Page Why not in Fedora: Same as OpenCascade. Furthermore, it is stroked through on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/WishList Rahul Sundaram guessed it could have been licensing issues in the past (cmp. http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=221294&page=12)
Request: FreeMat Summary: FreeMat is an application for scientific prototyping similar to Matlab and IDL. URL: http://freemat.sourceforge.net/ Why not in Fedora: Not sure, but it is stroked through on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/WishList Rahul Sundaram guessed it could have been licensing issues in the past (cmp. http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=221294&page=12)
Request: freetype (with patches to support subpixel rendering and bytecode interpreter) Summary: A free and portable font rendering engine URL: http://www.freetype.org Why not in Fedora: Patent issues regarding cleartype filtering and bytecode interpreter Notes: this package should be part of a logical group of other patched packages supporting better subpixel rendering in Fedora, to bring up the font rendering to the level of Ubuntu, Windows XP/Vista and MacOS/X. These packages are: cairo, freetype, fontconfig, libXft (and maybe pixman, this should be checked). Source packages already exist with patches supporting these features for all the above packages at: ftp://brebs.me.uk/fedora/10/. Further info: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-186789.html
Request: fontconfig (with updated configuration to make use of available cleartype rendering and bytecode interpreter features) Summary: Font configuration and customization library URL: http://fontconfig.org Why not in Fedora: Because the default packages do not provide these features. Notes: this package should be part of a logical group of other patched packages supporting better subpixel rendering in Fedora, to bring up the font rendering to the level of Ubuntu, Windows XP/Vista and MacOS/X. These packages are: cairo, freetype, fontconfig, libXft (and maybe pixman, this should be checked). Source packages already exist with patches supporting these features for all the above packages at: ftp://brebs.me.uk/fedora/10/. Further info: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-186789.html
Request: generator Summary: An open-source Sega Genesis / Megadrive emulator URL: http://www.ghostwhitecrab.com/generator/ Why not in Fedora: Emulators are not permitted in Fedora
Request: GAP (gimp gap) Summary: GAP is an advanced tool to be able to create animations, this guide should give you some sort of view of how GAP works and what you can do with it URL: ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/plug-ins/v2.4/gap Why not in Fedora: cause it need xvidcore lib
Request: get-flash-videos Summary: Downloaded videos from YouTube, eHow, Brightcove (used by many sites like Channel 4, Daily Telegraph ...), BBC (news, etc), Metacafe, 5min, Google, fliqz, nicovideo, vimeo, Blip, Break, Collegehumor, Muzu, Sevenload, Megavideo, Wat.tv. URL: http://code.google.com/p/get-flash-videos/ Why not in Fedora: Likely because it downloads videos in closed source formats like h.264
Request: gloss Summary: a drop-in replacement for the existing MythTV frontend URL: http://www.ohloh.net/p/gloss-mc Why not in Fedora: needs mythtv which is in rpmfusion
Request: GnomeBoyAdvance Summary: Gnomeboyadvance is a GNOME frontend for the Visual Boy Advance emulator URL: http://developer.berlios.de/projects/gnomeboyadvance/ Why not in Fedora: Emulators are not permitted in Fedora
Request: gnome-do Docky (and docklets) Summary: Docky is a frontend for GNOME Do (Do) that introduces an entirely new way to interact with Do. Docky helps Do become more directly involved with your desktop by providing a persistent mouse based Dock interface while remaining true to Do's keyboard only interaction. URL: http://do.davebsd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Docky Why not in Fedora: Docky (part of package gnome-do) was removed from fedora due to patent violations (US Patent 7434177). Docklets are used by Dock. Notes: This is very nice interface, replacement for gnome taskbar.
Request: GoalBit Summary: GoalBit is a peer to peer distribution system, capable of distributing high-bandwidth live-content to all network peers preserving its quality. URL: http://goalbit.sourceforge.net/ Why not in Fedora: Depands on codecs available in rpmfusion.
Request: gstreamer-pitfdll Summary: GStreamer plugin that allows the use of binary files, such as Quicktime QTX or Directshow/DMO DLL files. URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pitfdll/ Why not in Fedora: Probably because of codecs
Request: libsox-fmt-all Summary: The complete set of sox format codecs URL: http://sox.sourceforge.net/, http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/libsox-fmt-all Why not in Fedora: Well, mp3 can't be redistributed blah blah kinda stuff. Notes: Ubuntu provides all the libsox-fmt codecs. We should also (besides, they have a .deb so it should be fairly easy to translate)
Request: HandBrake (in progress) Summary: An open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 converter, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows. URL: http://handbrake.fr/ Why not in Fedora: Contains implementations of encoders and decoders for patented algorithms (e.g. MP3). Notes: This comes in both a CLI and GUI version, which would both be useful. Also, it requires libdvdcss to read DVDs directly. The default makefile downloads all it's own copies of all the multimedia libs, the challenging part here to get it to use the existing rpmfusion libraries as dependencies instead.
Request: iFolder Summary: rsync type of backup, but for desktops. URL: http://www.kablink.org/ifolder Why not in Fedora: Probably because it is developed by Novell/Suse. Notes: There exist many howtos on installing iFolder, but none for Fedora. http://blog.casalogic.dk/2010/06/ifolder/ http://www.x2b4.com/howto/how-to-install-ifolder-on-ubuntu-server/
Request: JavaFX Summary: JavaFX is a competitor to Flash and Silverlight entirely based on Flash. While RPMFusion made clear not to include SunJDK, which can be easily replaced by OpenJDK, there is no open replacement for JavaFX and there has already been a petition to make it freely available as well. URL: http://java.sun.com/javafx/downloads/ Why not in Fedora: Proprietary.
Request: libtxc_dxtn library
Summary: DXTn software compression/decompression library
URL: http://homepage.hispeed.ch/rscheidegger/dri_experimental/s3tc_index.html
Why not in Fedora: Patent issue
Notes: This library provides software compression/decompression needed by Mesa llvmpipe.
If this library is not installed glxinfo complains about it :
"couldn't open libtxc_dxtn.so, software DXTn compression/decompression unavailable"Request: libXft (with cleartype filtering patches) Summary: X.Org X11 libXft runtime library URL: http://www.x.org Why not in Fedora: Patent issues regarding cleartype filtering Notes: this package should be part of a logical group of other patched packages supporting better subpixel rendering in Fedora, to bring up the font rendering to the level of Ubuntu, Windows XP/Vista and MacOS/X. These packages are: cairo, freetype, fontconfig, libXft (and maybe pixman, this should be checked). Source packages already exist with patches supporting these features for all the above packages at: ftp://brebs.me.uk/fedora/10/. Further info: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-186789.html
Request: LiVES Summary: LiVES is a Free, Open Source video editor *and* a VJ tool, using less resources than cinelerra. URL: http://lives.sourceforge.net/ Why not in Fedora: Codecs used, as usual... Notes: rpms available from sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=64341&package_id=198331
Request: LÖVE Summary: LOVE is a free 2D game engine which enables easy game creation in Lua. URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/love/ URL: http://www.love2d.org/ Why not in Fedora: The current Mercurial snapshot needs mpg123 (mpg321) to be built, mpg321 is provided by RPMFusion. Notes: To be built, mpg321-devel is needed, but this package can't be found in RPMFusion Repo.
Request: ManDVD Summary: KDE based DVD creation program. URL: http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/ManDVD?content=83906 Why not in Fedora: It depends on packages already in RPM Fusion (FFmpeg, mplayer, transcode, etc)
Request: MePo Summary: MePo Theme for MythTV URL: http://home.comcast.net/~zdzisekg/ Why not in Fedora: It depends on packages already in RPM Fusion (mythtv et al)
Request: moonlight Summary: Free implementation of Microsoft' Silverlight URL: http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight Why not in Fedora: On the forbidden list due to patent concerns Notes: Review Request at https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436
Request: mencoder with aac encoding support Summary: video converter URL: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html Why not in Fedora: mencoder is part of mplayer, faac encoder is nonfree
Request: Mixxx-1.7.2 Summary: Mixxx is a dj program URL: http://www.mixxx.org/download.php Notes: I tried to compile myself with no success (I have no idea what I'm doing)
Request: mpg123 1.12.1 Summary: The original mpg123 mp3 encoder/decoder with a shared library URL: http://www.mpg123.de Why not in Fedora: MP3 is patented, nothing related to MP3 encoding/decoding is allowed in Fedora. Notes: Wine 1.1.29 and up uses dlopened libmpg123 to decode MP3. Previously, Fedora's version of Wine needed constant patching by the maintainer to remove the built-in MP3 facilities.
Request: Mupen64 Summary: Nintendo 64 emulator URL: http://mupen64.emulation64.com/ Why not in Fedora: Emulators are not permitted in Fedora Notes: This one was at Dribble but it is not in RPM Fusion. Mupen64 seems to work only on i386 and there are no updates on the project home page in the last 3 years. There is an active fork, called mupen64plus (see below).
Request: Mupen64Plus Summary: Nintendo 64 emulator URL: http://code.google.com/p/mupen64plus/ Why not in Fedora: Emulators are not permitted in Fedora Notes: Review Request at http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=303
Request: mythtv-status Summary: Scripts that display the current status of your MythTV system URL: http://www.etc.gen.nz/projects/mythtv/mythtv-status.html Why not in Fedora: Needs mythtv which is in rpmfusion Notes: Review Request: http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=539
Request: Mythvodka Summary: a plugin for MythTV allowing streaming of BBC iPlayer, Hulu, HTTP and NZB content. URL: http://code.google.com/p/mythvodka/ Why not in Fedora: Depends on mythtv, not packaged in fedora due to encumbered codecs Notes: hulu support is in flux ...
Request: netperf Summary: Network performance/benchmarking with the ability to benchmark many different protocols URL: http://www.netperf.org/netperf/NetperfPage.html Why not in Fedora: Does not appear to be a compatible license, COPYING file states it's owned by HP, but the code appears to be FOSS. Notes: No special requirements or dependencies that I know of.
Request: Nvidia CUDA Summary: Nvidia's CUDA technology enables the GPU to be used for various complex scientific computations. URL: http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_get.html Why not in Fedora: Free but not open-source Notes: Review Request at https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=459
Request: Nvidia Drivers version 256.35 Summary: Latest version of Nvidia's drivers URL: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=122606 Why not in Fedora: Free but not open-source Notes: Released by Nvidia on 16-June-2010. This will cure a longstanding bug: googleearth crashes at startup.
Request: Nvidia legacy Summary: Nvidia closed source driver for legacy cards URL: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_71.86.13.html Why not in Fedora: This is propitiatory closed source driver from Nvidia. Notes: At the moment Other drivers from Nvidia are packaged by rpmfusion but legacy driver is not. The open source nouveau driver still does not support 3D acceleration for these older cards like Riva TNT etc. Now that Nvidia has added support for newer kernel and Xorg 1.6/1.7 support it makes sense to start packaging these again. At least until nouveau support all the features.
Request: Nvidia legacy 173.x Summary: Nvidia closed source driver for legacy cards URL: http://www.nvidia.de/object/linux-display-ia32-173.14.27-driver-de.html Why not in Fedora: This is propitiatory closed source driver from Nvidia. Notes: At the moment Other drivers from Nvidia are packaged by rpmfusion but legacy driver is not. The open source nouveau driver still does not support 3D acceleration for these older cards like Riva TNT etc. Now that Nvidia has added support for newer kernel and Xorg 1.8 support it makes sense to start packaging these again. At least until nouveau support all the features. Not only misses nouveau 3D features, also the 2D Performance of this driver is horrible for older Nvidia graphic adapters. This legacy driver improves performance extremely.
Request: OpenCascade Summary: OpenCascade is a professional software development platform for CAD/CAM/CAE. URL: http://www.opencascade.org/getocc/download/loadocc/ Why not in Fedora: Need to register before download, only private use.
Request: OpenShot Video Editor Summary: A free and open source non-linear video editor URL: http://www.openshotvideo.com/ Why not in Fedora: It depends on packages that are not available in Fedora (ffmpeg, mlt). Notes: Working test spec and rpm files at http://killobyte.com/openshot/
Request: OpenSSL with Elliptic Curve, IDEA, MDC-2, RC5 crypto algorithms Summary: The OpenSSL toolkit provides support for secure communications between machines. URL: http://www.openssl.org/ Why not in Fedora: Because of the problem with software patents: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=319901 Notes: OpenSSL is included in Fedora but with Elliptic Curve, IDEA, MDC-2, RC5 crypto algorithms disabled.
Request: Open Movie Editor Summary: Open Movie Editor is a free and open source video editing program, designed for basic movie making capabilities. It aims do be powerful enough for the amateur movie artist, yet easy to use. URL: http://www.openmovieeditor.org/ Why not in Fedora: The codecs it uses are not compatible with fedora's license. Notes: rpm already available in opensuse through the packman repos: http://packman.links2linux.de/package/OpenMovieEditor
Request: Opera Summary: A popular web browser and Internet suite. URL: http://www.opera.com/ Why not in Fedora: nonfree Notes: Opera distributes both, tarball archives and rpms for Fedora and EPEL on their download pages (e.g. http://www.opera.com/browser/download/?os=linux-i386&ver=9.63&local=y for i386). Also, they welcome if anyone wants to mirror their packages (http://www.opera.com/download/mirrors/), but it doesn't say anything about if they allow repackaging and such.
Request: ORX Summary: Orx is a portable, lightweight, plugin-based, data-driven and extremely easy to use 2D-oriented game engine. URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/orx/ URL: http://orx-project.org/ Why not in Fedora: Needs SFML and Box2D, both not provided by the Fedora repo.
Request: PCSX Summary: An open-source Sony PlayStation emulator URL: http://www.pcsx.net/ Why not in Fedora: Emulators are not permitted in Fedora Notes: pcsx-df (Debian fork) review has been dropped at Dribble (http://dribble.org.uk/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=130)
Request: PlayOnLinux Summary: A simplified installer for Windows games on wine URL: http://www.playonlinux.com Why not in Fedora: Supports only proprietary programs to be installed Notes: They have their own yum repo, so implementation should be easy.
Request: Project X Summary: DVB demux tool URL: http://project-x.sourceforge.net/ Why not in Fedora: MPEG, http://project-x.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/project-x/Project-X/ReadMe.txt?revision=1.22&view=markup Notes: source rpm available at http://cachalot.mine.nu/9/SRPMS/
Request: Pulseaudio OSS module Summary: The Open Sound System (OSS) module for Pulseaudio URL: http://pulseaudio.org/ (Offline?) Why not in Fedora: Fedora has removed OSS support because they consider it legacy. Notes: Including this would make programs which support Pulseaudio to work with OSS. OSS installs well to Fedora 13 and works with software which have OSS support like VLC and Wine.
Request: PyKaraoke Summary: A free multiplatform karaoke player written in python. You can use this program to play your collection of CDG, MIDI and MPEG karaoke songs. URL: http://kibosh.org/pykaraoke/ Why not in Fedora: Requires mp3 support in the SDL library Notes: Instructions on how to install on Fedora can be found here: http://kibosh.org/pykaraoke/faq.php
Request: Python 2.5 (compat-python25, compat-python25-imaging, etc) Summary: Fedora 11 upgraded to Python 2.6 URL: http://python.org/ Why not in Fedora: Same reason python 2.4 is not available. Notes: Required by Google App Engine SDK for App Engine apps which rely on Python 2.5 features. See http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=985 for example
Request: radiotray Summary: software for listening radio stations in gnome URL: http://radiotray.sourceforge.net/ Why not in Fedora: Possibly legal issue with codecs
Request: RealPlayer Summary: cross-platform software for playing audio URL: http://real.com Why not in Fedora: Uses codecs not supported by fedora
Request: r5u87x firmware
Summary: Firmware for cameras based on Ricoh R5U87x chipsets. (Used on HP dv6000 and dv9000 series laptops and on some Sony Vaio laptops)
URL: http://bitbucket.org/ahixon/r5u87x/overview/
Why not in Fedora: Possibly legal issue
Notes: Rpm and sourcerpm for OpenSUSE http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/11802631/com/r5u87x-loader-0.2.0-11.3.x86_64.rpm.html
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Request: scrotwm Summary: the easist and best dynamic tiling window manager for X11 with human readable configuration file URL: www.scrotwm.org Why not in Fedora: I am not sure, but perhaps there is enough tiling window managers in the Fedora repo's so no body is looking for more, I am sure this will get more attention if it's there. Notes: I found this URL, how ever I faild to continue the steps shown at it, http://www.digitalfoo.net/posts/2009/11/Installing_scrotwm_on_Debian/
Request: sdlhazemd Summary: HazeMD is a Megadrive/Genesis emulator based on the MAME code URL: http://rbelmont.mameworld.info/?page_id=163 Why not in Fedora: Emulators are not permitted in Fedora
Request: Skype Summary: Skype is a very popular teleconferencing application. It has some questionable properties, but is one of the few apps to make calls to landlines. It is e.g. available in the Canonical partner repository. URL: http://www.skype.com/intl/en/get-skype/ http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-beta-fc10 Why not in Fedora: Skype is free, but proprietary and thus closed source. They have been engaged in censorship in China, preferred Intel users etc.
Request: SmartGit Summary: SmartGit is a front-end for the distributed version control system Git. It is intended for developers who prefer a graphical user interface over a command line client, to be even more productive with Git — the most powerful DVCS today. URL: http://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/index.html Why not in Fedora: There are legal questions raised about the origin of that software.
Request: smplayer-themes Summary: This package provides icon themes for SMPlayer. URL: http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/downloads.php?tr_lang=en Why not in Fedora: requires packages only available in rpmfusion, is very cool and easy to build and packing Notes: I got a .spec, here http://sergiomb.no-ip.org/specs/smplayer-themes.spec, which builds smplayer-themes-0.1.19.tar.bz2 into rpms. Answer: There are many mixed licenses in the "free" package, eg. GPL, LGPL, Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license, Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License. Someone with proper understanding of mixing licenses needs to look deeper into this (SebastianVahl - smplayer maintainer).
Request: snack Summary: The Snack Sound Toolkit is designed to be used with a scripting language such as Tcl/Tk or Python. Using Snack you can create powerful multi-platform audio applications with just a few lines of code. URL: http://www.speech.kth.se/snack/ Why not in Fedora: Has mp3 stuff in it Notes: This library will allow amsn to send/receive audio clips
Request: snes9x-gtk Summary: A graphical user interface for Snes9x URL: http://code.google.com/p/snes9x-gtk Why not in Fedora: There is no snes9x itself in Fedora repositories and no GUIs for the same reason. Notes: THIS IS NOT A DOUBLE! snes9x and snes9x-gtk are different packages.
Request: sox (with mp3 support) Summary: SoX is a media converter. It also ships with play, a player which play all format that SoX support and have bunch of cool effects. URL: http://sox.sourceforge.net/ Why not in Fedora: It is in, but compiled without liblame or libmad.
Request: StepMania 3.9 Summary: Game similar to Dance Dance Revolution where user can add/create steps and songs URL: http://www.stepmania.com/ Why not in Fedora: Uses mp3 files for music
Request: swarmplayer Summary: Stream video over a peer-to-peer bittorrent network URL: http://trial.p2p-next.org/linux/ Why not in Fedora: It requires vlc and python-vlc
Request: swftools Summary: SWFTools is a collection of utilities for working with Adobe Flash files (SWF files). The tool collection includes programs for reading SWF files, combining them, and creating them from other content (like images, sound files, videos or sourcecode). SWFTools is released under the GPL. URL: http://www.swftools.org Why not in Fedora: it requires lame to encode mp3.
Request: tp_smapi Summary: Exposes parts of the Thinkpad BIOS to Linux, such as battery charging limits. URL: http://tpctl.sourceforge.net/ Why not in Fedora: Fedora won't ship kernel modules Notes: Someone on Fedora people has already built a kmod and akmod package for Fedora, http://ndim.fedorapeople.org/packages/tp_smapi-kmod/ .
Request: VIA Chrome9 drm kmod/akmod Summary: provide DRM support for VIA Chrome9 graphic card URL: http://linux.via.com.tw/support/downloadFiles.action, choose CN896, Ubuntu 8.10, link: Chrome9 DRM source for kernel Why not in Fedora: Fedora won't ship kernel modules Notes: urgently needed for running Chrome9 GPUs with VIA proprietary driver. Even if users manage to get those drivers manually running, they need to build the module when kernel updates arrive through updates.
Request: VIA Chrome9/UniChrome proprietary 3D Xorg driver. Summary: provide Xorg 3D driver for VIA Chrome9/UniChrome URL: http://linux.via.com.tw/support/downloadFiles.action, choose CN896, Ubuntu 8.10, link: Unified GFX driver Ver 85a-44597 Why not in Fedora: restricted driver Notes: Although only available for Ubuntu 8.10, they also work for Fedora. Confirmed for HP 2133, see http://hp2133.umsw.de, section 11b. Issues with SELinux, also with OpenGL and RandR (both only when using compiz). 2D driver works better with RandR but is known to cause system freezes. Options/switches for xorg.conf not well documented. 3D driver needs VIA Chrome9 drm module, 2D may run without it, thus poor performance playing videos etc.
Request: Veejay Summary: visual instrument and realtime video sampler URL: http://www.veejayhq.net/ Why not in Fedora: The engine is based upon ffmpeg and the mjpegtools
Request: vdr-softdevice (ShmClient) Summary: Plugin for vdr which enables output via X11-Xv. With it you can use ShmClient to get vdr output with budget-only hardware (without a hardware MPEG-decoder). URL: http://softdevice.berlios.de/ Why not in Fedora: It uses ffpmeg to decode the MPEG-stream.
Request: VisualBoyAdvance Merge (VBA-M) Summary: Nintendo Gameboy, Gameboy Color, and Gameboy Advance Emulator URL: http://vba-m.ngemu.com/ Why not in Fedora: Emulators are not permitted in Fedora Notes: Review Request: https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=440
Request: vlc-plugin Summary: display vlc streams inn Firefox URL: http://www.videolan.org Why not in Fedora: requires vlc Notes: Already provided by rpmfusion as mozilla-vlc
Request: Xe Summary: A multi system emulator emulates many console and handheld video game systems. Xe is an original emulator written from scratch. URL: http://www.xe-emulator.com/ Why not in Fedora: Emulators are not permitted in Fedora
Request: zaptel-kmod (In progress - Seeking sponsor to add WillTatam as a contributor) Summary: zaptel kernel module for telephony cards URL: http://www.asterisk.org/ Why not in Fedora: Fedora won't ship the kernel modules (RH #177583). Notes: Asterisk (review RH #178922) and Zaptel tools (review RH #177584) are in Fedora.
Request: xvidenc Summary: the interactive shell script ripper URL: xvidenc.sourceforge.net/ Why not in Fedora: depends on some multimedia codecs Notes: similar to h264enc but for xvid
Maintainers: If you decide to work on a package requested here, please label it as "in progress" for example - Request: foo (in progress). Once the package has been published, remove it from this list. Thanks.
Software we won't package
Request: AdobeReader Summary: An application that can view, navigate and print PDF documents Notes: Adobe provides its own Yum repository for Adobe Reader and Flash - see http://blogs.adobe.com/acroread/2008/02/adobe_reader_now_available_via.html URL: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2_allversions.html Why not in RPM Fusion: It is not re-distributable. See http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/distribute.html
Request: libdvdcss Summary: A library for accessing and unscrambling DVDs encrypted with the Content Scramble System (CSS) URL: http://www.videolan.org/developers/libdvdcss.html Why not in RPM Fusion: The short story is: It was agreed on not to ship it due to various reasons around the fact that libdvdcss is a bit more complicated (or dangerous) than all the other software RPM Fusion offers have. The long story and all the arguments for and against shipping it can be found in the mailing lists archives. Livna and Freshrpms will provide libdvdcss for the forseeable future.
Request: ipset Summary: A pgm to set the list of ip ranges used in iptables/ipmodules URL: http://ipset.netfilter.org/ Why not in RPM Fusion: xtables-addons will provide ipset in the foreseeable future.
Request: java-1.6.0-sun
Summary: Sun JDK Runtime Environment
URL: http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp
Notes: self-build instructions for the latest Sun JDK at http://www.city-fan.org/tips/SunJava6OnFedora
Why not in RPM Fusion: restrictions on redistribution; the license at the time of writing can be found at:
http://java.sun.com/javase/6/jdk-6u18-license.txt
It includes terms (in the "License to Distribute Redistributables" section) like:
(iii) you do not distribute additional software intended to supersede any component(s) of the Redistributables
(this would include free Java implementations such as are already included in Fedora)
(vi) you agree to defend and indemnify Sun and its licensors from and against any damages, costs, liabilities,
settlement amounts and/or expenses (including attorneys' fees) incurred in connection with any claim, lawsuit
or action by any third party that arises or results from the use or distribution of any and all Programs and/or
Software
(nobody at RPM Fusion is likely to agree to that)