Bug#694257: fdk-aac: who knows more?
Quoting Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez (2013-05-10 13:28:20)
> On 10/05/13 07:41, Arto Jantunen wrote:
> > The difference between the GPL and the LGPL does solve the problem
> > if the program you are developing wants to link to both LGPL
> > licensed and GPL incompatible libraries, assuming that the license
> > of the program itself is not either GPL or LGPL. Parts of libav are
> > GPL and the rest is LGPL, thus the problem remains.
>
> So the problem all boils down that the fact that libav contains GPL
> code?
>
> I was supposing that libav was 100% LGPL (with no GPL code). If libav
> contains GPL code then the whole viral nature of the GPL license will
> entangle everything. AFAIK there is no practical difference between
> being libav 100% GPL or beeing libav 1% GPL. You have to obey the GPL
> in both cases, which means that you can't link libav with
> GPL-incompatible license software.
>
> Isn't it?
Please read the section "License of the Debian ffmpeg packages" of
/usr/share/doc/libav-tools/README.Debian.gz and ask if afterwards these
matters are is still uncertain.
The very purpose of that text is to clarify situations like this, I
believe. So we should promote that text whenever such issue comes up,
and improve it if not clear enough.
- Jonas
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