Bug#386406: libmms: majormms haven't yet granted relicensing to LGPL

2006-09-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
posted mailed Anon Sricharoenchai wrote: Package: libmms Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.3 According to, http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xine-develm=107261185004445w=2 , since they can't find where to contact the author of majormms, either in majormms website,

Bug#386406: libmms: majormms haven't yet granted relicensing to LGPL

2006-09-18 Thread Nathanael Nerode
posted mailed Loïc Minier wrote (in bug 330355): I'm happy you took the time to verify this for Ubuntu. I did a quick search in the xine-devel archive between 2004-01 and 2005-09 confirming: - the announcement of the relicensing process - confirmation that most persons, including Major

Bug#386406: libmms: majormms haven't yet granted relicensing to LGPL

2006-09-14 Thread Loïc Minier
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006, Don Armstrong wrote: Ah; my understanding was that there were some parts (the xmms header files?) which were GPL only, and that the rest of libmms was licenced under the LGPL, which is what I retitled the bug to clarify. [If that's actually the case, as debian/copyright

Bug#386406: libmms: majormms haven't yet granted relicensing to LGPL

2006-09-14 Thread Anon Sricharoenchai
Loic Minier wrote: On Mon, Sep 11, 2006, Anon Sricharoenchai wrote: If there's one upstream that extract and modify dll files from Windows Media Player and relicense those dll to some freeware license, then this upstream software can be packaged into Debian/non-free? Although it is

Bug#386406: libmms: majormms haven't yet granted relicensing to LGPL

2006-09-14 Thread Loïc Minier
Hi, On Thu, Sep 14, 2006, Anon Sricharoenchai wrote: So I could give another example. If the new project copy code from Qt and the project itself is licensed under LGPL. While it is obviously that some parts of code is from Qt, and no any approval from trolltech to be relicensed,

Bug#386406: libmms: majormms haven't yet granted relicensing to LGPL

2006-09-13 Thread Loïc Minier
severity 386406 important tags 386406 + moreinfo retitle 386406 Some bits might not have been properly relicensed, but please provide/gather more information stop Hi, On Tue, Sep 12, 2006, Don Armstrong wrote: Loic: The only actual (minor) issue here is that the package doesn't

Bug#386406: libmms: majormms haven't yet granted relicensing to LGPL

2006-09-13 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Loïc Minier wrote: On Tue, Sep 12, 2006, Don Armstrong wrote: Loic: The only actual (minor) issue here is that the package doesn't reference the GPL and include the copyright+licensing statement of the parts that are GPL licensed. It would also be useful to include the

Bug#386406: libmms: majormms haven't yet granted relicensing to LGPL

2006-09-12 Thread Don Armstrong
retitle 386406 debian/copyright should include actual text of the copyright statement and reference LGPL and GPL severity 386406 minor thanks On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Anon Sricharoenchai wrote: According to Section 3 of LGPL, Debian or anyone can relicense LGPL software into the ordinary GPL.

Bug#386406: libmms: majormms haven't yet granted relicensing to LGPL

2006-09-12 Thread Loïc Minier
Hi, On Mon, Sep 11, 2006, Anon Sricharoenchai wrote: If there's one upstream that extract and modify dll files from Windows Media Player and relicense those dll to some freeware license, then this upstream software can be packaged into Debian/non-free? Although it is apparently that

Bug#386406: libmms: majormms haven't yet granted relicensing to LGPL

2006-09-11 Thread Anon Sricharoenchai
Hi, - Original Message From: Lo?c Minier Now, what is the basis of your claims that this might not be LGPL? What new information did you find? And why are you discussing this with Debian? This seems like an upstream problem to me and something to discuss with upstream. I

Bug#386406: libmms: majormms haven't yet granted relicensing to LGPL

2006-09-10 Thread Loïc Minier
severity 386406 important tags 386406 + moreinfo stop Hi Anon, I'm lowering the severity of your bug until you clarify your claims. Please send me the new information you have found. I take licensing very seriously, but you didn't point to material that wasn't already known when I

Bug#386406: libmms: majormms haven't yet granted relicensing to LGPL

2006-09-07 Thread Loïc Minier
Hi, On Thu, Sep 07, 2006, Anon Sricharoenchai wrote: According to, http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xine-develm=107261185004445w=2 , since they can't find where to contact the author of majormms, either in majormms website, http://www.geocities.com/majormms/ , and its source,

Bug#386406: libmms: majormms haven't yet granted relicensing to LGPL

2006-09-07 Thread Anon Sricharoenchai
Package: libmms Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.3 According to, http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xine-develm=107261185004445w=2 , since they can't find where to contact the author of majormms, either in majormms website, http://www.geocities.com/majormms/ , and its source,