Re: [libdc] libdc1394 license

[Damien D. <dam...@cy...>]

Hi Matwey,

On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 13:16 +0400, Matwey V. Kornilov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The question has been raised at SuSE bugzilla:
> 
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=777083
> 
> 
> The essence is:
> 
> 1) sourceforge declares libdc1394 as lgpl-2.0
> 2) COPYING declares libdc1394 as lgpl-2.0
> 3) manual files dc1394_reset_bus.1 and dc1394_vloopback.1 declares examples 
> as gpl-3.0 (at the same time, sources codes for dc1394_reset_bus and 
> dc1394_vloopback declare themself as lgpl-2.0)
> 4) additional files examples/affine.c|h are declared as gpl-2.0
> 
> 
> Under what license dc1394_reset_bus and dc1394_vloopback are distributed? As 
> for me, there is a kind of contradiction for (3) and (4).

Thanks for pointing this issue. There should not be any "v3" in
libdc1394, so unless someone more knowledgeable than me opposes I will
change that to gpl-v2.

Regarding the GPL/LGPL contradiction, it seems that only examples
programs are under GPL. This may make sense, as they can't be linked
against so that the GPL and LGPL would be equivalent. Of course, all
examples should be either GPL or LGPL; mixing both licenses doesn't make
much sense here.

I would be tempted to change all licenses to LGPL for the sake of
simplicity. Anyone has a better idea?

Damien



-- 
Damien Douxchamps
Cyberdyne Inc, Japan

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