On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 7:18 PM, Francesco Poli <invernom...@paranoici.org> wrote: > On Wed, 09 Jan 2013 06:51:10 +0000 Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > > [...] >> [ Jonas Smedegaard ] >> * Rewrite copyright file using copyright format 1.0. >> Closes: bug#694657. Thanks to Francesco Poli. > > You're welcome, Jonas! > Thanks to you, indeed. > > > I have a question, though. > At the beginning of the new debian/copyright file, I read the following > comment: > > | Comment: > | Because the libavcodec-extra-* package (since libavcodec-extra-54) > | links against libraries licensed under Apache-2.0 (not compatible with > | LGPL), effective license of that package and libav-dbg is GPL-3+. > > This does not look too clear to me. > > Which license is the libavcodec-extra-* package released under? > LGPL-2.1+ or GPL-2+ ?
GPL-3+ > > By looking at the rest of the debian/copyright file, it seems to me > that the answer is LGPL-2.1+ : can you confirm, please? > > If this is really the case, then, although it's true that Apache-2.0 is > not compatible with GPL-2, I don't think it's accurate to say that > Apache-2.0 is not compatible with LGPL... > > Moreover, why should the effective license of the libavcodec-extra-* > package be considered GPL-3+ ? It is not possible to "downgrade" the license from GPL-2+ to LGPL-2. This only leaves GPL-3(+) as possible option AFAIUI. > This seems to imply that I cannot distribute a program under a > GPL-3-incompatible license (for instance, BSD-4-clause) linked with > libavcodec-extra-*: I don't see any reason why such a program should be > considered as legally undistributable... That's also my understanding. Luckily, I cannot imagine any sensible usecase for an application in debian to link against libavcodec-extra-* > > Please clarify the situation, and let's see whether we can find a > clearer formulation for the above-quoted comment. > > Thanks for your time! Thanks for the license and debian/copyright review! -- regards, Reinhard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org