Re: libdvbv5 licencing

2016-04-22 Thread Russel Winder
On Tue, 2016-04-19 at 16:36 -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > […] > License changed. Thank you, this is great news. GStreamer dvbsrc rewrite now on the starting blocks: lots of code "replication" deletion first thing on the agenda. -- Russel.

Re: libdvbv5 licencing

2016-04-19 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Em Wed, 13 Apr 2016 16:40:55 +0100 Russel Winder escreveu: > On Tue, 2016-04-12 at 11:19 -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > […] > > > Yes. We had some discussions in the past to re-license it to LGPL, > > if this is going to be used by some other OSS project that would > > require that. Most

Re: libdvbv5 licencing

2016-04-13 Thread Russel Winder
On Tue, 2016-04-12 at 11:19 -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: […] > Yes. We had some discussions in the past to re-license it to LGPL, > if this is going to be used by some other OSS project that would > require that. Most of the code was written by me, and, in the past > the other developers th

Re: libdvbv5 licencing

2016-04-12 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Hi Russel, Em Sat, 26 Mar 2016 06:13:08 + Russel Winder escreveu: > I hadn't noticed previously, but it has been brought to my attention > that libdvbv5 is licenced as GPLv2. This makes it impossible > (effectively) for any non-GPL code to make use of libdvbv5. This seems > to undermine the

libdvbv5 licencing

2016-03-25 Thread Russel Winder
I hadn't noticed previously, but it has been brought to my attention that libdvbv5 is licenced as GPLv2. This makes it impossible (effectively) for any non-GPL code to make use of libdvbv5. This seems to undermine the whole point of libdvbv5.  In particular, I wanted to rip out all the Linux API b