in the course of packaging gmerlin-avdecoder for debian, we noticed that....


well, i believe that most issues have been fixed now (i'm sure more will
pop up)

however, here are some minor observations we had, that are not simple
"please change line #N in file <F>" issues.

- lib/libw32dll/ contains so many code that has a non-clear licensing
that the debian packager team decided to just exclude it (afaiu, this
code is only relevant on w32 anyhow(?); at least it was never activated
by autoconf on my debian machines, which could also mean that i was
missing loads of proprietary stuff and libraries which won't be
available on a normal debian host anyhow

- lib/GSM610/ has a license that seems to be incompatible with GPL as
well, so it was also removed from the debian package; i guess this is
more of a pity, since apart from the license, it could easily be
included in debian.

it would be nice if lib/GSM610/ could be excluded on demand (like
lib/libw32dll already is); (e.g. "--without-GSM610")

it would be even nicer, if any non-GPL code code could be excluded on
demand (e.g. "--enable-gpl")


most important:
changes to the licenses (that have already taken place; thanks), will
only be propagated to debian with the next release!
therefore i'm looking forward to that one, and would like to ask: are
there any plans yet, when the next release will happen?

fgmasdr
IOhannes

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