Bug 2376

Summary: Picasa, a photo software from Google
Product: Mageia Reporter: Rémi Verschelde <rverschelde>
Component: New RPM package requestAssignee: Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: Normal CC: dmorganec, marja11
Version: Cauldron   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: i586   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://picasa.google.com/linux/
Whiteboard:
Source RPM: CVE:
Status comment:

Description Rémi Verschelde 2011-08-05 19:19:56 CEST
Description of problem:
Could Picasa be packaged for Mageia?

I don't know if we should package v2.7 stable or v3.0 beta, though.
Comment 1 D Morgan 2011-08-05 19:30:08 CEST
do we need an agreement with Google to add this on non free ?

CC: (none) => dmorganec

Comment 2 Marja Van Waes 2011-11-03 06:36:07 CET
(In reply to comment #1)
> do we need an agreement with Google to add this on non free ?

@ Rémi,

I've spent too much time trying to figure that out. I get the impression they're not eager to have the package in some other repository than their own:
http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/ 

And I'm not good at reading juridical language, I might have missed something relevant here:
http://www.google.com/accounts/TOS

Do you still want the package in Mageia?

CC: (none) => marja11
Severity: normal => enhancement

Comment 3 Marja Van Waes 2011-11-03 06:46:22 CET
@ Remi

I should have given this link, too
http://picasa.google.com/linux/faq.html#5b

There it says:
Q. I'd rather just use my package manager to download and install Picasa.

Please see the instructions at http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/.
Comment 4 Rémi Verschelde 2011-11-15 22:04:36 CET
Thanks for these links Marja.

It seems pretty clear then that we cannot distribute this software.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => WONTFIX

Comment 5 Marja Van Waes 2011-11-27 20:35:09 CET
Oh, you closed this bug yourself :)

you might be interested in bug 1522, a request to include libesound0 because it is (or was, at the time the bug was filed) requested for Picasa.
I'll put you in the cc of that request