Public bug reported: Binary package hint: faac
From: Jason Garrett-Glaser <[email protected]> Subject: [RFC] Libfaac not LGPL? Newsgroups: gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:45:37 -0700 Reply-To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches <[email protected]> We had some discussions on #ffmpeg-devel and I asked the folks at #gnu about this: http://faac.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/faac/faac/libfaac/tns.c?r1=1.8&r2=1.9 It appears that libfaac, despite declaring itself LGPL2.1, contains quite a few licenses... many of which are completely incompatible with the LGPL, such as the above. In theory, it still may be legal to distribute, as the LGPL linking exception *may* cover the linking of .c files with non-free licenses with .c files that have free licenses. However, either way, this places FAAC squarely under non-GPL territory... such that ffmpeg should require --enable-nonfree to link to it. See thread at http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel/89985 ** Affects: faac (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Description changed: Binary package hint: faac From: Jason Garrett-Glaser <[email protected]> Subject: [RFC] Libfaac not LGPL? Newsgroups: gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:45:37 -0700 Reply-To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches <[email protected]> We had some discussions on #ffmpeg-devel and I asked the folks at #gnu about this: http://faac.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/faac/faac/libfaac/tns.c?r1=1.8&r2=1.9 It appears that libfaac, despite declaring itself LGPL2.1, contains quite a few licenses... many of which are completely incompatible with the LGPL, such as the above. In theory, it still may be legal to distribute, as the LGPL linking exception *may* cover the linking of .c files with non-free licenses with .c files that have free licenses. However, either way, this places FAAC squarely under non-GPL territory... such that ffmpeg should require --enable-nonfree to link to it. See thread at - http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel/89985 + http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel/89985 -- Libfaac not LGPL https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/374900 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
