Cc: "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 08:39:40 -0800
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.