Bug#698019: libav: the effective GPL-licensed status of the binary packages should be clearly documented

2013-01-16 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Reinhard Tartler (2013-01-16 07:27:25) On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 1:20 AM, Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk wrote: I'll setup a mechanism to have libav extend the copyright file for each binary packages, adding to header section a reasoned effective license. ...and will start

Bug#698019: libav: the effective GPL-licensed status of the binary packages should be clearly documented

2013-01-15 Thread Thibaut Paumard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Le 14/01/2013 23:45, Francesco Poli a écrit : On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 11:13:48 +0100 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Quoting Charles Plessy (2013-01-14 02:55:38) On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 11:43 PM, Francesco Poli (wintermute) I think that the effective

Bug#698019: libav: the effective GPL-licensed status of the binary packages should be clearly documented

2013-01-15 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Thibaut Paumard (2013-01-14 23:29:40) -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Le 14/01/2013 23:45, Francesco Poli a écrit : On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 11:13:48 +0100 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Quoting Charles Plessy (2013-01-14 02:55:38) On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 11:43 PM,

Bug#698019: libav: the effective GPL-licensed status of the binary packages should be clearly documented

2013-01-15 Thread Thibaut Paumard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Le 15/01/2013 14:41, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit : Quoting Thibaut Paumard (2013-01-14 23:29:40) -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Le 14/01/2013 23:45, Francesco Poli a écrit : On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 11:13:48 +0100 Jonas Smedegaard

Bug#698019: libav: the effective GPL-licensed status of the binary packages should be clearly documented

2013-01-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 02:41:07PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: the current defined purpose of the copyright file apparently is only to cover copyrights and licensing or _source_. That's not true. The purpose of the copyright file has *always* been to ensure that the license for a given

Bug#698019: libav: the effective GPL-licensed status of the binary packages should be clearly documented

2013-01-15 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Steve Langasek (2013-01-15 20:59:35) On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 02:41:07PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: the current defined purpose of the copyright file apparently is only to cover copyrights and licensing or _source_. That's not true. The purpose of the copyright file has

Bug#698019: libav: the effective GPL-licensed status of the binary packages should be clearly documented

2013-01-15 Thread Reinhard Tartler
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 1:20 AM, Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk wrote: I'll setup a mechanism to have libav extend the copyright file for each binary packages, adding to header section a reasoned effective license. ...and will start do similar for all the other packages that I am involved

Bug#698019: libav: the effective GPL-licensed status of the binary packages should be clearly documented

2013-01-14 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Charles Plessy (2013-01-14 02:55:38) On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 11:43 PM, Francesco Poli (wintermute) I think that the effective licensing status of the binary packages (GPL-2+ or GPL-3+) should be explicitly and clearly documented in the comment at the beginning of the

Bug#698019: libav: the effective GPL-licensed status of the binary packages should be clearly documented

2013-01-14 Thread Francesco Poli
On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 11:13:48 +0100 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Quoting Charles Plessy (2013-01-14 02:55:38) On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 11:43 PM, Francesco Poli (wintermute) I think that the effective licensing status of the binary packages (GPL-2+ or GPL-3+) should be explicitly and

Bug#698019: libav: the effective GPL-licensed status of the binary packages should be clearly documented

2013-01-13 Thread Reinhard Tartler
tags 698019 help stop Copying debian-legal and netgen mostly for notifying them about this issue. Also, see the call for help below. On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 11:43 PM, Francesco Poli (wintermute) invernom...@paranoici.org wrote: Source: libav Version: 6:9.1-1 Severity: important Hello again,

Bug#698019: libav: the effective GPL-licensed status of the binary packages should be clearly documented

2013-01-13 Thread Charles Plessy
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 11:43 PM, Francesco Poli (wintermute) I think that the effective licensing status of the binary packages (GPL-2+ or GPL-3+) should be explicitly and clearly documented in the comment at the beginning of the debian/copyright file and, probably, in the binary

Bug#698019: libav: the effective GPL-licensed status of the binary packages should be clearly documented

2013-01-12 Thread Francesco Poli (wintermute)
Source: libav Version: 6:9.1-1 Severity: important Hello again, while trying to improve [1] a comment at the beginning of the debian/copyright file, it became apparent [2] that all the binary packages built from libav are effectively under GPL-2+ or even under GPL-3+ (as for libavcodec-extra-*,