--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Den 16.11.2007 kl. 13:35 skrev Jay dedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > 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/
>
Thank you for bringing these details up. Both the license.txt and
readme.html are months out of date. I will do this for the next
release of vPIP:
- Update lincese.txt to list all licenses for all code.
- Provide and include source for all SWF files that are not the
cineViewer (name changed from cirneViewer) flash application.
- Change readme.html to point to the documentation at http://vpip.org
Note: - The Jeroen FLV Player is not included in vPIP. There is a
..\jeroen directory that has graphical assets for building in the
flash player, cineViewer's, interface to look similar to one of the
jeroen flv player interfaces.
- All vPIP code except the cineViewer application will be
licensed under X11 (or MIT License):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License
-- Enric
