On Do, Jun 03, 2010 at 16:22:28 (CEST), Nathan A. Stine wrote: > On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 08:51 +0200, Sebastian Dröge wrote: >> On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 23:10 -0400, Nathan A. Stine wrote: >> > Or so I thought. >> > >> > Diego Biurrun marked it as non-free upstream, but I'd think Debian Legal >> > should take a look at the license to make their own determination. >> >> Well, it's IMHO not non-free (as in not DFSG free) but it's definitely >> GPLv2 incompatible because of the restriction in the patent license >> (interesting here: if they didn't include a patent license nobody >> would've complained although they had no official rights to use the >> patents...). If your software is (L)GPLv2+ or v3 I guess everything is >> fine, if it's LGPLv2 it's probably fine too. >> >> But you're right, Debian Legal should probably look at it as well. I've >> already asked the ftp-masters to give their statement about the license >> and compatibility with other licenses but they didn't answer yet. > > FFmpeg states that it is available under (L)GPL2+.
the debian FFmpeg package is distributed under *GPL2*. We do enable important parts (e.g., in libswscale) that are not enable in LGPL mode. GPL3 would make linking other GPL2 only packages problematic. In theory, I guess we could provide an additional LGPL only variant of ffmpeg in some special, non-standard path, but I'm not convinced at all that this will a) helping here and b) worth the trouble. -- Gruesse/greetings, Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4 _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
