On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 6:30 PM, Francesco Poli <invernom...@paranoici.org> wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 09:55:12 +0100 Reinhard Tartler wrote: > > [...] >> 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. > > Wait, are you saying that those few GPL-licensed files: > > [...] > | Files: libavdevice/x11grab.c > | libavfilter/yadif.h > | libavfilter/vf_blackframe.c > | libavfilter/vf_boxblur.c > | libavfilter/vf_cropdetect.c > | libavfilter/vf_delogo.c > | libavfilter/vf_hqdn3d.c > | libavfilter/vf_yadif.c > | libavfilter/x86/yadif.c > | libavfilter/x86/yadif_template.c > [...] > | License: GPL-2+~Libav > [...] > > are compiled into, or linked with, each shared object (*.so) shipped in > all Debian binary packages built from the libav source package?
yes. > In other words, are you saying that all binary packages built from > the libav Debian source package are effectively under GPL-2+ > (except for libavcodec-extra-* and libav-dbg, which are effectively > under GPL-3+)? yes. > Isn't there any binary package effectively under LGPL-2.1+? Exactly, we currently do not produce any LGPL'ed binary packages in Debian. In fact, we never did. Technically we could, but that would require significant additional complexity that I would prefer to avoid unless absolutely necessary. > Please clarify, since this may heavily affect the resolution of > licensing issues for other packages! I imagine. I hope this mail clarifies the situation! -- 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