Hi, On 13.11.2014 15:12, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
Right, I believe there are many libavcodec-using packages out there that are licensed under GPLv3 or similar licenses, whereas we forcefully keep the default library package at GPLv2. Are there any counter-examples?
Several packages using libavcodec are GPL v2 only: * dff [1] * hedgewars [2] * openjfx [3] * visp [4] There are likely some more.All of them have an alternative dependency on libavcodec-extra-56, which is strictly speaking a license violation. Probably appropriate Conflicts relationships between them and libavcodec-extra-56 are necessary.
However, I wonder if the few additional codecs in the extra package are worth all the additional complexity. How many actually use these codecs?
Best regards, Andreas1: https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/d/dff/copyright-1.3.0%2Bdfsg.1-4.1 2: https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/h/hedgewars/copyright-0.9.20.5-12
3: https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/o/openjfx/copyright-8u20-b26-3 4: https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/v/visp/copyright-2.9.0-3