Re: [Playerstage-developers] Player license issues

[Jack O'Q. <jac...@gm...>]

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Toby
Collett<tco...@pl...> wrote:
> I have been informed that there are a few license issues stopping player 2.1
> getting in to debian. In particular there are some source files with no
> license info, and a mix in GPL v2 and v3 licenses.
>
> I would like to propose the following license policy, and then if there is
> no major problem with it I will work on making the source meet the proposed
> structure, this may even mean that some drivers of dubious origin need to be
> dropped.
>
> Firstly, where GPL licenses are involved we use v2 or v2+, we have far fewer
> v3 files in the repo, so it is easier to change them than the rest.
> All file must have their license in a header at the start of the file.
> Unless otherwise stated, all files are LGPL compatible
> The exceptions to LGPL are
>  -  that the server (including libplayerdrivers) and utils will be GPL
> compatible
>  - anything in examples we should go for BSD compat (This will require some
> relicensing so we will have to see how plausible it is)
>
> The goal is to:
> 1) keep things simple
> 2) maximise the usefulness of player, while still encouraging contribution
> of features and fixes.
>
> Comments welcome...

That sounds reasonable to me.
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 joq