Bug#330355: ITP: libmms -- MMS stream protocol library

[Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org>]

        Hi,

On mer, sep 28, 2005, James Troup wrote:
> There's an (incomplete) README in the source explaining that the
> relevant authors agreed to relicense their code under the LGPL.

 Thanks for pointing this!  I saw similar claims on their homepage too,
 and did not find more in the various README files than the actual claim
 of the relicensing:
    Original GPL code was taken from Xine project
    (http://xine.sf.net). Relicensed to LGPL with explicit approval from
    all copyright holders, if you're interested, you can see thread at:

    <FIXME: add link to xine's mailing archives, import mails from my
    local mailbox>

 I'm happy you took the time to verify this for Ubuntu. I did a quick
 search in the xine-devel archive between 2004-01 and 2005-09
 confirming:
 - the announcement of the relicensing process
 - confirmation that most persons, including Major MMS, and most CVS
   accounts owners accepted the relicensing execpt a couple of persons
 - the release announcement of libmms 0.1 with the claim that the
   software has been relicensed

 I'll switch the license back to LGPL.

   Bye and thanks,
-- 
Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org>