On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 07:47:15PM +0100, Sebastian Dröge wrote: > currently debian/copyright mentions that the package is licensed under > plain GPL. This is apparently wrong as for example src/cfft.h state > (other files too): > [... GPL boilerplate ...] > ** Software using this code must display the following message visibly > in or > ** on each copy of the software: > ** "FAAD2 AAC/HE-AAC/HE-AACv2/DRM decoder (c) Nero AG, www.nero.com" > ** in, for example, the about-box or help/startup screen.
> This is an additional restriction over the GPL that makes this code IMHO > GPL incompatible and as thus linking to the library might be a bit funny > licensing-wise. Please correct this in debian/copyright... However, it may be the case that the copyright holder legitimately intends to place the work under the GPL, and believes that the follow-up comments are merely a clarification of the GPL's requirements. The GPL does include several provisions regarding displaying copyright information, and it's possible that the author believed this requirement was the same as GPL 2c). I would consider this an etch-ignorable issue while the matter was taken up with the upstream for clarification. > It would probably have been better to package the older 2.0 version or > some CVS snapshot before this ugly paragraph was added to the license as > for example the gstreamer plugin using this library is unable to fullfil > the license requirements... > Second problem I see is that the copyright holder is not mentioned in > debian/copyright. Please add this. Should probably be > "Copyright (C) 2003-2005 M. Bakker, Nero AG, http://www.nero.com"; That's not etch-ignorable, though. debian/copyright does need to include the actual copyright statement. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/
