On 12-01-31 at 04:30pm, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > On Di, Jan 31, 2012 at 10:37:23 (CET), Fabian Greffrath wrote: > > I think what we are doing with libav-extra is a bit insincere. We > > pretend to play fair by only building packages against the GPL-v2+ > > libav libraries but then offer the possibly license-incompatible > > GPL-v3 libraries from the libav-extra packages for runtime linking. > > So why is that insincere? What's the problem with that?
Problem is that other packages can carefully ensure not violating licensing when linking against libav, and libav-extra then "distorts" that by causing Debian as a whole to not ensure against same violation. How about having libav-extra package conflict with other packages known to not be compatible with the tighter licensing? - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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