MPEG-4 patent license issues - libfaad* and libx264* and other codecs.

2006-04-29 Thread Matthew William Solloway Bell
The packages libxine1, ffmpeg, include libfaad*, libx264* or another codec which implement the MPEG-4 Advanced Audio Coding and Advanced Video Coding standards. Unfortunately, these are patent encumbered in at least the USA, and many other countries. To distribute code implementing any of these pa

Re: A GPL-compatible license for photos and music. Which?

2006-04-29 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 15:17:39 GMT NeuRoTiX wrote: > Francesco Poli wrote: > > The only (recommended) copyleft license that is GPL-compatible is > > the GNU GPL itself. Current version is 2.0: > > http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl.txt > > Is it the same I got doing "man gpl"? It seems so..

Re: Fwd: Re: [NONFREE-DOC] RFC1459, 2810-2813: IRC (Internet Relay Chat).

2006-04-29 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 01:55:55 +0200 Kurt Roeckx wrote: > Do I need to get the copyright holder of the documents to > relicense it under the GPL? It seems clear to me that it > already is covered by the GPL, but it shouldn't be a > problem to get the copyright holder to explicitly state > that. Ye

Re: Bug#365390: MPEG-4 patent license issues - libfaad* and libx264*

2006-04-29 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 07:10:59PM +0100, Matthew William Solloway Bell wrote: > Justification: Policy 2.3 - Copyright considerations This has nothing to do with copyright. This is a question of patent infringement. Please do not conflate these two areas of law. > This package includes libfaad

Re: left-over non-free license file in .orig tarball

2006-04-29 Thread Joe Smith
"Frank Gevaerts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, When I packaged foobillard 3.0a, I correctly removed the included non-free larabie ttf fonts, but I accidentally forgot to remove the associated README.FONTS file, which contains the license for these fonts. Is th

Re: A GPL-compatible license for photos and music. Which?

2006-04-29 Thread NeuRoTiX
Francesco Poli wrote: > The only (recommended) copyleft license that is GPL-compatible is the > GNU GPL itself. Current version is 2.0: > http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl.txt Is it the same I got doing "man gpl"? I see that there is a license "for artworks" that is called to be the "GPL