Bug#859793: fluidsynth: Package has infringed GPL

2017-04-14 Thread Javier Serrano Polo
El dl 10 de 04 de 2017 a les 23:06 +0200, Peter Hanappe va escriure: > However, it seems that chorus.c is now under the LGPL license. From > https://sourceforge.net/p/sox/code/ci/master/tree/COPYING: As I understand, fluidsynth_chorus.c was imported from SoX rather than the original project by

Bug#859793: fluidsynth: Package has infringed GPL

2017-04-10 Thread Peter Hanappe
Hello all, I agree that the licenses in fluidsynth are not completely consisted and Debian is right to make sure that they are. However, it seems that chorus.c is now under the LGPL license. From https://sourceforge.net/p/sox/code/ci/master/tree/COPYING: SoX source code is distributed under

Bug#859793: fluidsynth: Package has infringed GPL

2017-04-10 Thread Javier Serrano Polo
El dl 10 de 04 de 2017 a les 09:24 +0200, David Henningsson va escriure: > What makes things slightly easier for us as upstream is that FluidSynth > is released under LGPL rather than GPL. LGPL allows linking to custom > licenses. This is not the case because fluid_chorus.c is part of the

Bug#859793: fluidsynth: Package has infringed GPL

2017-04-10 Thread David Henningsson
Hi. This came as a surprise for me. What's worse, it seems like none of the maintainers are currently active in Fluidsynth, and AFAIK none of us have time to either rewrite fluid_chorus.c, or track down all contributors to it since 1998. What makes things slightly easier for us as upstream

Bug#859793: fluidsynth: Package has infringed GPL

2017-04-09 Thread Javier Serrano Polo
Dear Chris Bagwell, In 1999, you imported src/chorus.c to SoX on SourceForge.[6] File is copyrighted by Juergen Mueller and sundry contributors. Could you tell us where we could find the original project or how to contact Juergen Mueller? Thank you. -- [6]

Bug#859793: fluidsynth: Package has infringed GPL

2017-04-08 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am Freitag, den 07.04.2017, 14:16 +0200 schrieb Javier Serrano Polo: > This source code is freely redistributable and may be used for > any purpose. > > The license does not grant the right to modify the software. Therefore, > it is not compatible with GPL-2.1+ (sic) or LGPL-2.0+.

Bug#859793: fluidsynth: Package has infringed GPL

2017-04-07 Thread Javier Serrano Polo
Regarding SoX and Debian bug #92969, the copyright handling in wav.c is dubious.[5] Assuming this modification is allowed, wav.c changes the notice XAnim Copyright (C) 1990-1997 by Mark Podlipec. [...] This software may be freely copied, modified and redistributed

Bug#859793: fluidsynth: Package has infringed GPL

2017-04-07 Thread Javier Serrano Polo
El dv 07 de 04 de 2017 a les 19:13 +0100, James Cowgill va escriure: > FYI the license in question is the SoX license which has been in Debian > and basically all distributions for 20 years (as part of SoX)... So SoX and derivatives are affected too. The problem was not detected.[3] > The SoX

Bug#859793: fluidsynth: Package has infringed GPL

2017-04-07 Thread James Cowgill
Hi, On 07/04/17 19:01, Jaromír Mikeš wrote: > 2017-04-07 14:16 GMT+02:00 Javier Serrano Polo >: > > Source: fluidsynth > Version: 1.1.6-4 > Severity: wishlist > > fluid_chorus.c is under a custom license, granting the following: > >

Bug#859793: fluidsynth: Package has infringed GPL

2017-04-07 Thread Jaromír Mikeš
2017-04-07 14:16 GMT+02:00 Javier Serrano Polo : > Source: fluidsynth > Version: 1.1.6-4 > Severity: wishlist > > fluid_chorus.c is under a custom license, granting the following: > > This source code is freely redistributable and may be used for > any purpose. >

Bug#859793: fluidsynth: Package has infringed GPL

2017-04-07 Thread Javier Serrano Polo
Source: fluidsynth Version: 1.1.6-4 Severity: wishlist fluid_chorus.c is under a custom license, granting the following: This source code is freely redistributable and may be used for any purpose. The license does not grant the right to modify the software. Therefore, it is not