Matthias Kilian <k...@outback.escape.de> wrote: > Hmm. If audio/gsm has PERMIT_*_FTP = No, how can audio/sox, which > *includes* libgsm, have PERMIT_PACKAGE_* = Yes?
Indeed, these should have the same restriction--whatever that may be. sox is nowadays distributed under the GPL. That is somewhat dubious, since the source was originally scrounged together from contributions with all sorts of confused licensing, but I don't think we can be expected to audit this, and as long as nobody complains... The GSM package as originally distributed (audio/gsm) fails to allow any redistribution in the terms stated in its COPYRIGHT file. This is quite obviously an accidental omission; the authors probably thought they automatically permitted redistribution by putting the package up on FTP. (Common thinking back then.) Unfortunately, this is not good enough for us. Since we acknowledge that gsm suffers licensing restrictions, it's problematic to pretend these restrictions don't apply to the same code that is included in sox. As far as I know, we are the only ones to have a problem with this. Everybody else, including Debian, happily assumes that the gsm code included with sox is covered by the GPL. I've been wracking my brain for years over this. > BTW: there's an actual homepage for libgsm, and a newer version, too > (well, still rather old...): If this clears up the licensing, we should update. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de
