I don't have an opinion one way or another. What do other people think? On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 8:27 AM, Robert Kausch <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Rocky, > > I had a look at the licenses of cdparanoia 10.2 and cdio-paranoia source > files. > > In cdparanoia, the only files that carry a GPL license are cachetest.c and > main.c (which would be cd-paranoia.c in cdio-paranoia). Everything else, > including the whole library, is LGPL licensed. > > In cdio-paranoia about half the files are GPL, the other half LGPL. I > think this is because the license of cdparanoia used to be the GPL until > svn revision 14871. In revision 14872, they changed the license to LGPL, > but that switch was never made in cdio-paranoia. > > As cdio-paranoia is now based on the latest cdparanoia release which, > except for the two files mentioned above, is LGPL licensed, we could change > the license to LGPL as well. Only the cd-paranoia tool would still have to > be GPL licensed. > > Tell me what you think. > > Robert > > Am 15.09.2014 um 13:43 schrieb Rocky Bernstein: > > My intent was to make this identical to >> http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/cdparanoia/cdparanoia-III-10.2.src.tgz >> from https://www.xiph.org/paranoia/down.html >> >> I may have botched things though. If there are discrepancies, I'd >> appreciate it if you or others would fix and make a pull request off of >> the >> git repository https://github.com/rocky/libcdio-paranoia >> >> I see that doc/FAQ.txt isn't in the source mentioned above. So maybe we >> remove that file? >> >> On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 5:56 AM, Nicolas Boullis <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Hi Rocky, >>> >>> On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 05:17:26AM -0400, Rocky Bernstein wrote: >>> >>>> Lastly, the doc/FAQ.txt file has a copyright notice, with the "All >>>> rights reserved." sentence. Isn't it non-free? >>>> >>> Sorry for bothering you, but do you have an opinion on this one? >>> I cannot start the Debian transition to libcdio 0.92 (or the upcoming >>> 0.93) without packages for libcdio-paranoia, and I cannot ship a >>> non-free documentation within Debian main. >>> Do you have a reason to think this file is free? Or should I use a >>> stripped-down tarball? >>> >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> -- >>> Nicolas >>> >>> > >
