Hi Andreas, 2015-06-06 20:10 GMT+02:00 Andreas Cadhalpun <andreas.cadhal...@googlemail.com>: > Hi Bálint, > > On 06.06.2015 19:51, Bálint Réczey wrote: >> 2015-06-06 19:15 GMT+02:00 Andreas Cadhalpun >> <andreas.cadhal...@googlemail.com>: >>> On 06.06.2015 02:01, Bálint Réczey wrote: >>> The problem is that Debian users must be allowed to redistribute it, >>> but as far as I understand it, it is not allowed to distribute e.g. >>> a live DVD with hedgewars and libavcodec-extra installed. >>> I also pointed this out in the previous discussion [1]. >> I'm not absolutely sure, but IMO yes, such Live DVD-s would not be >> allowed, but it is a problem of live DVD makers to care about. Package >> maintainers can't and should not prevent this usage. > > That's not how I interpret DFSG §1 [1]: > "1. Free Redistribution > The license of a Debian component may not restrict any party from selling > or giving away the software as a component of an aggregate software > distribution containing programs from several different sources." > > I think this applies to Debian Live DVDs. I'm pretty sure it does not. I can create a Live DVD which links some existing GPLv3 packages with incompatible packages and this is nat a fault of package maintainters. If you believe your interpretation is correct you can ask for confirmation on debian-legal.
> >> I'm OK with disabling AMR encoder in ffmpeg and stay GPLv2 compatible >> with the packages since I have no packages requiring it nor use-cases >> as a user requiring it, but I prefer the choice provided by by current >> libav packaging. >> >> Would it be hard to patch the build system? > > It'd probably be doable, but there are also other downsides like e.g. > a doubled build-time. I'm OK with doubled build-time, but I hoped we would need only doubled link-time. Cheers, Balint _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers