On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 12:51 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 12:08:20AM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > > > >Ok, I updated the debian/copyright and pushed the changes to > >git.debian.org. Its ready for re-upload. > > > >I just wanted to add that the previous condition was legal, LGPL-2.1 > >files can be incorporated into a GPL-2 project, so it was correct to > >say that the whole project could be used under the GPL-2. It is not > >correct to say that the whole library could be used under the LGPL-2.1 > >though, only some of the files, if used in isolation. > > Legal, yes: The licenses are indeed compatible. > > The issue, though, is about Policy compliance: ยง4.5 requires including > "verbatim" copies of licensing - meaning that even if we legally are > allowed to relicense under different compatible terms, we limit > ourselves to only _reuse_ upstream licensing.
The library as a whole is licensed using GPL-2 by upstream in the LICENSE.txt file. The relicensing was done upstream. More info is good, no argument there, but rejecting the package seems harsh. .hc _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
