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  • From: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
  • To: "sm-commit AT lists.ibiblio.org" <sm-commit AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Commit] GIT changes to master grimoire by Ladislav Hagara (1209909dfeabc93711be7e99b2a133169e982fac)
  • Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:53:48 +0100

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 08:39:40AM -0800, Eric Sandall wrote:
> Ladislav Hagara wrote:
> >> libquicktime: enabled extra plugins (--enable-gpl)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/video-libs/libquicktime/BUILD
> >> b/video-libs/libquicktime/BUILD
> >>
> >> +OPTS="--enable-gpl $OPTS" default_build
> >>
> >> @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
> >> +2009-01-30 Ladislav Hagara <hgr AT vabo.cz>
> >> + * DETAILS: PATCHLEVEL=1
> >> + * BUILD: added to enable extra plugins (--enable-gpl)
> >>
> >
> > IANAL, seems this can be a problem.
> > libquicktime is LGPL, by default it doesn't install GPL plugins (for
> > example x264 plugin /usr/lib/libquicktime/lqt_x264.so needed for
> > openmovieeditor).
> > This commit probably breaks the licenses.
> > By default it is --disable-gpl. Can we change it to --enable-gpl without
> > user's approval?
> > Can we change it by some question in PREPARE?
> > Should these plugins go to z-rejected (very strange, they are GPL)?
> >
>
> Probably add another LICENSE (so there are LGPL and GPL) in DETAILS and
> then query (default 'n' as upstream) to install the GPL plugins. You can
> have openmovieeditor use SUB_DEPENDS to require the GPL libraries to be
> built.

This is also an issue with ffmpeg, which is build with --enable-gpl by
the spell. The spell also says GPL in LICENSE though. Do you think those
should really offer the option?
Quite a bit of work for not much gain imho, people who need to rely on
their libs being LGPL for a project will have to do a license audit
anyway.

--
Arwed v. Merkatz Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
http://www.sourcemage.org




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