On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 05:50:15PM -0500, Clint Adams wrote: > Is > > http://voxel.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mpg123/mpg123-0.59r-gpl.tar.gz > > free of license and security problems?
Probably not. The license file was replaced with a boilerplate copy of the GPL, but doesn't say whether the change was founded on anything else but the sloppy 'hey, it's GPL' notice on the mpg123 homepage. Also, it's based on Debian's 0.59r-19, and while Michael told me he'd always asked his contributors whether they'd agree to a potential license to GPL later on, we don't have such blanket permission for the patches integrated into Debian. So the original license still applies, and ironically even if 0.59r might be GPLed now, the Debian version clearly remains non-free. So is the tarball on SourceForge. Anyway, there's a second fork of the GPL version by Thomas Orgis, based on the latest Debian release. Thomas got in touch with me recently and informed me that his project and the one on SourceForge want to join efforts and officially continue upstream maintainence[0]. I've asked him to clear up the remaining license problems, and intend to switch to their upstream source once this is done. Regards, Daniel. [0] http://mpg123.orgis.org - not much to see at the moment, though. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
