On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Andres Mejia mcita...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Mark Taylor m...@mp3dev.org wrote:
Hi Andres,
I'd be happy to just delete this text from the README.
Not sure if my sourceforge account will still work. It would be
quicker one of the other developers was willing to remove this text?
Hence I'm forwarding to lame-...@lists.sf.net.
Mark
Ok. Thank you very much!
Also, I'm going to assume I can remove this text from the README in
the tarballs for any of the releases from LAME.
Before I rush to this, let me say that I hope nobody minds if I remove
this text from the tarball of LAME that will be redistributed
(hopefully) in Debian. Of course if anyone has objections, feel free
to raise them.
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 7:50 AM, cer...@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
Hello,
I'm sorry to bother you. I'm sure you have already been
contacted with regards to LAME and the modifications you
made to its license over 10 years ago. There's a possibility
that LAME can be redistributed alongside Debian (despite the
patent issues with LAME) if a certain issue is resolved.
This issue is with regards to the modifications you
introduced in the README file. The modifications are
repeated below.
This code is distributed under the GNU LESSER PUBLIC LICENSE
(LGPL, see www.gnu.org) with the following modification:
1. If you determine that distribution of LAME requires a
patent license,
and you obtain a patent license, you may distribute LAME
even though
redistribution of LAME may also require a patent license.
2. You agree not to enforce any patent claims for any aspect of
MPEG audio compression, or any other techniques contained in
the LAME source code.
The issue is mainly with the second modification which
contradicts the terms of the LGPL which states.
You may not impose any further restrictions on the
recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein.
This contradiction makes LAME undistributable (see [1] and [2]).
I have sent a message to the Free Software Foundation and
the Software Freedom Law Center in regards to this issue
(see [3]). So far I haven't received a response from either
of them. I have received a response from one of the current
LAME developers however (I had CC'd the lame-dev mailing
list). Since the time these extra restrictions were
introduced, no other file was updated to add these
restrictions. Thus there is confusion as to whether LAME is
still licensed solely under LGPL or if these modifications
to the LGPL which are stated in the README file also apply.
The current LAME developers would like to remove those extra
restrictions if they knew for sure that those restrictions
only applied to the README or at least any file that doesn't
contain any licensing information.
Since you were the only person to introduce these changes,
this is why I am sending you this lengthy message via
sourceforge.net's messaging system. If you agree to have
these modifications to the LGPL dropped for LAME, could you
send a message to the current LAME developers allowing them
to drop the modifications? You could also send me a message
and I will route the message to them (I am not a LAME
developer).
Regards,
Andres Mejia
Email: mcita...@gmail.com
1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2010/08/msg00049.html
2.
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-multimedia-maintainers/2011-April/017869.html
3.
https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=201105030019.30226.mcitadel%40gmail.comforum_name=lame-dev
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