On Wed, 9 Jan 2013 21:11:38 +0100 Reinhard Tartler wrote: > On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 7:18 PM, Francesco Poli [...] > > Which license is the libavcodec-extra-* package released under? > > LGPL-2.1+ or GPL-2+ ? > > GPL-3+
GPL-3+ is the effective license of the binary package. My question was "which is the license for the source files which are compiled in order to generate that binary package?". > > > > > By looking at the rest of the debian/copyright file, it seems to me > > that the answer is LGPL-2.1+ : can you confirm, please? > > > > If this is really the case, then, although it's true that Apache-2.0 is > > not compatible with GPL-2, I don't think it's accurate to say that > > Apache-2.0 is not compatible with LGPL... > > > > Moreover, why should the effective license of the libavcodec-extra-* > > package be considered GPL-3+ ? > > It is not possible to "downgrade" the license from GPL-2+ to LGPL-2. > This only leaves GPL-3(+) as possible option AFAIUI. This is true, as long as I have to start from GPL-2+, rather than from LGPL-2.1+. The unclear part is why I have to start from GPL-2+ (see my reply to Jonas for more details). I hope we can come up a suitable clarification for that comment. Thanks for your patience (both to you and to Jonas!). -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/frx-gpg-key-transition-2010.txt New GnuPG key, see the transition document! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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