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#493 lame decoder component license GPL, switching to more permissive possible?

Portability
closed-rejected
nobody
None
5
2018-09-20
2018-09-14
vmaimouna775
No

From the README:

LAME uses the MPGLIB decoding engine, from the mpg123 package, written
by: Michael Hipp (www.mpg123.de) MPGLIB is released under the GPL.

Copyrights (c) 1999-2011 by The LAME Project
Copyrights (c) 1999,2000,2001 by Mark Taylor
Copyrights (c) 1998 by Michael Cheng
Copyrights (c) 1995,1996,1997 by Michael Hipp: mpglib

As well as additional copyrights as documented in the source code.

Nowadays, mpg123 is lgpl licensed. Is the license notice still valid? Can it be switched to LGPL?

Discussion

  • Alexander Leidinger

    Alexander Leidinger - 2018-09-20

    Relicensing the exisitng code is not an option. There is work in progress to switch to a more recent version of libmpg123 (which would mean than any license change there would be reflected as well). There is no estimate of when this is finished.

     

  • Alexander Leidinger

    Alexander Leidinger - 2018-09-20
    • status: open --> closed-rejected
    • discussion: enabled --> disabled
     
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