Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> I think, however, that its license (MPL) makes the package mostly
> useless for linking against all GPL'ed software - which is, well,
> quite a lot.
I agree completely.
Actually, melodie.app is under a non-copyleft license but of course
Debian will distribute it under GPL, since our ffmpeg libs are under
GPL. When I mentioned this to upsteeam (that we can't link against
libavcodec/libavformat and mp4v2 even if/when the latter is packaged
in Debian) they said that it's a distro's problem if the distro ships
"GPL-contaminated" (sic) ffmpeg.
FWIW, they just use mp4v2's tags functionality (which was implemented
in taglib) and intend to drop the dependency when a new taglib release
is made (which I think is already a fact).
I humbly suggest to keep mp4v2 on hold and avoid uploading it until
there is actually any benefit -- libraries with no reverse
dependencies are mostly useless.
P.S. When I was investigating this issue (i.e. why mp4v2 is not in
Debian) about 2 years ago I vaguely remember an old ITP and a
discussion that it cannot be in Debian due to patents concerns.
Upstream's homepage at SF (back then) was pretty scary, too.
Sorry I can't give any references right now.
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