Re: Bug#386406: libmms: majormms haven't yet granted relicensing to LGPL

2006-09-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Loïc Minier wrote (in bug 330355): I'm happy you took the time to verify this for Ubuntu. I did a quick search in the xine-devel archive between 2004-01 and 2005-09 confirming: - the announcement of the relicensing process - confirmation that most persons, including Major MMS, and most CVS

Re: Bug#386406: libmms: majormms haven't yet granted relicensing to LGPL

2006-09-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Anon Sricharoenchai wrote: > Package: libmms > Severity: serious > Justification: Policy 2.3 > > According to, > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xine-devel&m=107261185004445&w=2 , since > they can't find where to contact the author of majormms, either in > majormms website, http://www.ge

Re: Bug#386406: libmms: majormms haven't yet granted relicensing to LGPL

2006-09-14 Thread Loïc Minier
Hi, On Thu, Sep 14, 2006, Anon Sricharoenchai wrote: > So I could give another example. > If the new project copy code from Qt and the project itself is licensed under > LGPL. While it is obviously that some parts of code is from Qt, and no any > approval from trolltech to be relicensed,

Re: Bug#386406: libmms: majormms haven't yet granted relicensing to LGPL

2006-09-14 Thread Loïc Minier
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006, Don Armstrong wrote: > Ah; my understanding was that there were some parts (the xmms header > files?) which were GPL only, and that the rest of libmms was licenced > under the LGPL, which is what I retitled the bug to clarify. [If > that's actually the case, as debian/copyrigh

Re: Bug#386406: libmms: majormms haven't yet granted relicensing to LGPL

2006-09-13 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Loïc Minier wrote: > On Tue, Sep 12, 2006, Don Armstrong wrote: > > Loic: The only actual (minor) issue here is that the package doesn't > > reference the GPL and include the copyright+licensing statement of the > > parts that are GPL licensed. It would also be useful to includ

Re: Bug#386406: libmms: majormms haven't yet granted relicensing to LGPL

2006-09-13 Thread Loïc Minier
severity 386406 important tags 386406 + moreinfo retitle 386406 Some bits might not have been properly relicensed, but please provide/gather more information stop Hi, On Tue, Sep 12, 2006, Don Armstrong wrote: > Loic: The only actual (minor) issue here is that the package doesn't > refer

Re: Bug#386406: libmms: majormms haven't yet granted relicensing to LGPL

2006-09-12 Thread Don Armstrong
retitle 386406 debian/copyright should include actual text of the copyright statement and reference LGPL and GPL severity 386406 minor thanks On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Anon Sricharoenchai wrote: > According to Section 3 of LGPL, Debian or anyone can relicense LGPL > software into the ordinary GPL. Deb

Re: Bug#386406: libmms: majormms haven't yet granted relicensing to LGPL

2006-09-12 Thread Loïc Minier
Hi, On Mon, Sep 11, 2006, Anon Sricharoenchai wrote: > If there's one upstream that extract and modify dll files from Windows Media > Player and relicense those dll to some freeware license, then this upstream > software > can be packaged into Debian/non-free? Although it is apparently t

Re: Bug#386406: libmms: majormms haven't yet granted relicensing to LGPL

2006-09-11 Thread Anon Sricharoenchai
Hi, > - Original Message > From: Lo?c Minier > > Now, what is the basis of your claims that this might not be LGPL? > What new information did you find? > > And why are you discussing this with Debian? This seems like an > upstream problem to me and something to discuss with upstream.

Re: Bug#386406: libmms: majormms haven't yet granted relicensing to LGPL

2006-09-07 Thread Loïc Minier
Hi, On Thu, Sep 07, 2006, Anon Sricharoenchai wrote: > According to, > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xine-devel&m=107261185004445&w=2 , since > they can't find where to contact the author of majormms, either in > majormms website, http://www.geocities.com/majormms/ , and its source, > ht