On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 08:54 +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > As this issue is going to need a broader discussion IMO, let's engage > debian-legal to join this. Please keep both mailing list in the loop! > > For full context for debian-legal: FFmpeg is a compilation of several > libraries, we are discussing the libavcodec library in this > context. It consists of several decoders, of which some are only > wrappers for external libraries. The openamr decoder is such one, that > one can use openamr-core, if available at compilation time. > > FFmpeg is currently distributed under the terms of of GPLv2 or later, > openamr-core is licensed under the terms of the Apache 2.0 > license. According to upstream's assessment, enabling the openamr > decoder renders the resulting libavcodec.so shared object file, and all > applications linking against that library as only distributable under > the terms of GPLv3 or later. I don't know the compelxity of openamr-core, but maybe it's possible to get a special exception to link as GPLv2? I know of a few cases where this has happened (eg, liblo GPL->LGPL exception for csound). -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler
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