On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Francesco Poli <invernom...@paranoici.org> wrote: > On Wed, 9 Jan 2013 21:11:38 +0100 Reinhard Tartler wrote: > >> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 7:18 PM, Francesco Poli > [...] >> > Which license is the libavcodec-extra-* package released under? >> > LGPL-2.1+ or GPL-2+ ? >> >> GPL-3+ > > GPL-3+ is the effective license of the binary package. > My question was "which is the license for the source files which are > compiled in order to generate that binary package?".
Oh I'm sorry, I mixed that up. There is no clear answer on that because it depends. Most of the files are LGPL, but some hand-written assembler optimizations are GPL-2+. The configure script offers an --enable-gpl switch that includes those GPL-2+ sources. We do enable this switch for all packages we produce in Debian. In theory, we could probably also provide an LGPL build of libavcodec. Fortunately, nobody has requested that so far. HTH -- regards, Reinhard _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers