* Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: Hi,
> Right now the aac useflag enable support for MP4v2 tags writing through > libmp4v2; the problem is that the library is licensed under MPL, while Amarok > is licensed under GPL, and they are likely not compatible one to the other, > which means it's impossible to redistribute binaries built this way. I'm not an license expert, but *IMHO* this only is an issue on static linking, not w/ dynamic linking. My argumentation would go like this: * The only possible conflict is that MPL'ed binaries are not allowed to link into GPL'ed ones. * What we call dynamic linking is actually loading some binary into an process and using its code/data - files are not touched * We do not actually link against an certain library, but instead against some *interface* (ie. defined by some .h file) - this is independent from an specific binary. * On an binary distribution, the two packages only sit somewhere in our filesystem (as well as an installed system) and aren't linked together in any way. => There's no impact on an binary distro (which would not be on the running system). To prohibit such an binary distro you could try two ways: a) prohibit MPL'ed and GPL'ed files together on the same media or computer. Totally stupid idea, IMHO. b) claim exclusive rights on an interface specification. -> not copyright, but patent issue -> at least in EU, such patents are illegal (although they exists) Just my 0.02 EUR ... cu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: http://patches.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
