On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Fabian Greffrath <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, in Debian gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad is linked against vo-aacenc and > vo-amrwbenc and gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly is linked against opencore-amr, > but according to their respective debian/copyright files, the packages are > still released under the terms of the GPL-2+. Is this simply an oversight > and should get changed to GPL-3?
Yes, AFAIK GPL-2+ makes the package redistributable under GPL-3 and then debian/copyright could be adapted to reflect that and avoid any licensing issue. > For the same reason we have a libav-extra package in Debian which provides a > libavcodec library linked against the aforementioned libraries. According to > its debian/copyright file, the GPL-3 applies to the resulting binary > packages. What does this mean for packages linking against this variant of > libavcodec? What are the exact license incompatibilities that we want to > avoid by providing this variant? Does this mean that a package which is > licensed under GPL-2 (not 2+) cannot get linked against the GPL-3'ed > libavcodec? Still AFAIK, no, that such of package couldn't, right because of the incompatibility between GPL-2 and Apache-2.0 -- Alessio Treglia | www.alessiotreglia.com Debian Developer | [email protected] Ubuntu Core Developer | [email protected] 0416 0004 A827 6E40 BB98 90FB E8A4 8AE5 311D 765A _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
