Hi, Am 16.08.2010 12:15, schrieb IOhannes m zmoelnig: > 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
The win32 stuff is for loading win32 dlls on Linux systems. It's the most disgusting piece of code in all my packages :) It's from the time, when many codecs were available only in binary form. Nowadays, it's not strictly necessary except for some exotic codecs. My main development machine is 64 bit, where it's disabled anyway so it's been unmaintained for some time now. > - 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. Just found that newer ffmpegs have a gsm decoder now. Maybe can simply use that instead. > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Gmerlin-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gmerlin-general
