--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Steve Watkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I tried to help a tiny bit with show-in-a-box licensing issues: > > http://showinabox.pbwiki.com/licensing > > As you can see, I had not explored what VPiP was made of, but from what I understood it > would need to be GPL to be distributed with the rest of SIAB. Did I get that right?
No, GPL allows other code licensed with less restrictive licenses. A list of those licenses are at: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html vPIP is licensed under X11 (sometimes called MIT License) which the GPL license allows. > > Frankly, there is a lack of people who understand this stuff, and an apparent lack of will to > try to understand it. The issues arent being taken seriously enough, which ironic > considering how strongly many in this group feel when its peoples video licenses that are > being ignored. Yes, I've been finding it a bit frustrating getting repeated questions on why vPIP isn't GPL that I've explained several times. -- Enric > > I suppose I should not be surprised, given the amount of times I mention that many > peoples CC licenses give others the right to re-host their work, which is incompatible with > many peoples stated wishes to remain in control of their content for stats purposes, and I > never get any response to that. I gues the details give people a headache, but these legal > issues are meaningless without understanding of the detail. > > I mean I cant really blame people for not wanting to look at the detail, as some of it is > likely to spoil their dreams and plans, but all the same, its irresponsible. > > If I ever do anything useful I think I'll just release it into the public domain to provide a > few less headaches for everyone else. > > Cheers > > Steve Elbows > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen" <solitude@> > wrote: > > > > Den 16.11.2007 kl. 13:35 skrev Jay dedman <jay.dedman@>: > > > > > vPIP is GPL....so if you wanted to help optimize this feature... > > > > I've been confused about the license of vPIP for a while now, maybe Enric > > can help out. > > > > I realise that I'm one of the few people who have actually read through > > the vPIP source code more than once starting with the first versions Enric > > released way back when and as a result some of my obversations are more > > esoteric. > > > > The licenses.txt states that the cirneViewer.swf is conventional copyright > > and the rest of the package is LGPL (not GPL). But vPIP consists of a > > collection of scripts, some by Enric, some not. > > > > * The .js files contain text stating that they are covered by the X11 > > license. > > * jQuery is either MIT or GPL (I'm guessing MIT is what enric chose since > > bundling it would be impossible under GPL). > > * The thickbox is clearly marked as Creative Commons > > Attribution-ShareAlike, but the thickbox parts of vpip.js are not marked > > so it's impossible to see which parts of the file are LGPL or X11 or CC > > BY-SA. > > * Cortado is GPL as far as I know, but I can't find a note about this > > anywhere in the vPIP package > > * The source code for the code generator is nowhere to be found making the > > LGPL license kinda worthless since it's impossible to do anything with the > > complied swf file. > > * The jeroen flv player bundled has no license information, but if it's > > identical to the one on his website it's CC BY-NC-SA, not LGPL. > > > > This kind of stuff is important to get sorted out. It needs to be very > > clear what parts are covered by which license. Especially considering > > projects like Show in a Box which states that "everything here is open > > source" (when it's clearly not that simple). > > > > - Andreas > > > > -- > > Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen > > http://www.solitude.dk/ > > >
