Re: [Freetantrum-devel] Licensing problem with songprint?

[Bob C. <bo...@es...>]

I believe I had taken mpglib from an mpg123 archive which said 
(as in the LAME version) the code could be used under GPL terms.
However since that doc isn't in the songprint archive, I'd just 
as soon go with the LAME version.  

Another thing we should consider: libvorbis beta 3 is scheduled
to be available by the end of this week, and already has a debian
package in the works.  With this release the library interface is 
finalized, so the example program can be linked against the vorbis
shared library.  Thus I think it would be smart to go ahead and 
nuke all of the vorbis code (except the codec wrapper), and setup 
the configure check to automatically disable vorbis if the 
library isn't installed. 

-Bob

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ingo Saitz" <Ing...@st...>
To: <fre...@li...>
Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 7:56 AM
Subject: [Freetantrum-devel] Licensing problem with songprint?


> MoiN
> 
> I am going to package songprint for debian GNU/Linux. However, it
> apperars that you are using code from mpg123 which may not be
> included in GPLed programs. In the copyrights file to mpg123 it
> reads:
> 
> > DISTRIBUTION:
> > 
> > ... [mpg123 must be] distributed in its entirety, ... It may not
> > be sold for profit or as "hidden" part of another software, ...
> 
> You nowhere seem to mention permissions from the author of mpg123
> to distribute his code under the GPL, so this would make
> distributing your program illegal. Please don't answer "who
> cares" because Debian does.
> 
> But there _is_ a variant of mpg123's mpglib you can use under the
> conditions of the GPL. It is included in the lame distribution
> (http://lame.sourceforge.net/). Using this version would make
> your program legal and allow inclusion into debian.
> 
> I already replaced the mpglib code in your distribution with that
> from lame 3.87. I put my working results as a patch against
> songprint 1.1 up on
> 
>     http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/~ingo/songprint-lame_mpglib.diff
> 
> Please consider applying it to replace the non-free mpg123 code
> with the GPLed one from lame.
> 
>     Ingo
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