On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 17:21:23 +0100 (CET) Vincent Torri <vto...@univ-evry.fr>
said:

> 
> Hey,
> 
> currently, there are 2 plugins based on poppler and libspectre, which are 
> GPL. Eyesight (the lib) can be LGPL. There are 2 other plugins, text and 
> image/comic book which uses only the EFL, so they can be under the BSD 
> licence.
> 
> When I compile FFmpeg, there is a configure option, --enable-gpl, which 
> compile the GPL parts and in that case, ffmpeg is GPL.
> 
> Do you think it is worth doing such thing ? So always compile image and 
> text plugins, and in that case Eyesight is under BSD, and if --enable-gpl 
> is passed, we add the possibility to compile pdf and postscript plugins 
> and then, Eyesight is LGPL.

hmmi'd say simplify the licensing - as such we have 3 licenses here. GPL comes
in because of a dependency that is optional at compile and runtime that is GPL.
lib is LGPL - why have BSD modules as well? may as well make them LGPL too to
keep the license thing simpler.

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