Hi, On 06.06.2015 02:01, Bálint Réczey wrote: > GPL imposes no restrictions on _using_ software, but on distributing > it without properly licensed source, i.e. distributing a binary > compiled from GPLv3 source without also providing the source under > GPLv3 is prohibited. > Compiling hedgewars without libavcodec-extra creates a GPLv2 binary > which is distributable. > The user can install libavcodec-extra which would also work with > hedgewars, but no one violated GPLv3 up to this point AFAIK.
On 06.06.2015 02:07, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > The keyword in this sentence is "using". I do NOT think we need to > prevent users from doing stupid things, but we must ensure that Debian > as a (re-)distributor does not violate any licenses. The dependencies > are set up in a way that ensures that all packages build against the > GPLv2+ variants, and nowhere on the buildds or on any other Debian > machine we distribute a piece of software that would be in violation > here. And that was the point of this exercise. The problem is that Debian users must be allowed to redistribute it, but as far as I understand it, it is not allowed to distribute e.g. a live DVD with hedgewars and libavcodec-extra installed. I also pointed this out in the previous discussion [1]. > Since the hassle makes more work for active ffmpeg maintainers and > while I sponsored a few uploads I don't consider myself one I should > not make the call, but it would be really nice to provide the AMR > encoder as well in Debian and also keeping hedgewars in the archive. > > Maybe there is a way of providing libavcodec-extra and having modern > packaging scripts. Maybe patching the build could help, but I have not > checked this idea. The AMR encoder is anyway just a wrapper around libopencore/libvo. Gstreamer also has similar wrappers and since they are plugins, the license is less of a problem. Thus anyone really wanting to encode AMR can use gstreamer. Best regards, Andreas 1: https://lists.debian.org/debian-multimedia/2014/11/msg00018.html _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
