Re: [Libcdio-devel] Packaging libcdio 0.92 and libcdio-paranoia 10.2+0.90+1 for Debian

[Rocky Bernstein]

I don't have an opinion one way or another. What do other people think?

On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 8:27 AM, Robert Kausch <address@hidden>
wrote:

> Hi Rocky,
>
> I had a look at the licenses of cdparanoia 10.2 and cdio-paranoia source
> files.
>
> In cdparanoia, the only files that carry a GPL license are cachetest.c and
> main.c (which would be cd-paranoia.c in cdio-paranoia). Everything else,
> including the whole library, is LGPL licensed.
>
> In cdio-paranoia about half the files are GPL, the other half LGPL. I
> think this is because the license of cdparanoia used to be the GPL until
> svn revision 14871. In revision 14872, they changed the license to LGPL,
> but that switch was never made in cdio-paranoia.
>
> As cdio-paranoia is now based on the latest cdparanoia release which,
> except for the two files mentioned above, is LGPL licensed, we could change
> the license to LGPL as well. Only the cd-paranoia tool would still have to
> be GPL licensed.
>
> Tell me what you think.
>
> Robert
>
> Am 15.09.2014 um 13:43 schrieb Rocky Bernstein:
>
>  My intent was to make this identical to
>> http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/cdparanoia/cdparanoia-III-10.2.src.tgz
>> from https://www.xiph.org/paranoia/down.html
>>
>> I may have botched things though. If there are discrepancies, I'd
>> appreciate it if you or others would fix and make a pull request off of
>> the
>> git repository https://github.com/rocky/libcdio-paranoia
>>
>> I see that doc/FAQ.txt isn't in the source mentioned above. So maybe we
>> remove that file?
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 5:56 AM, Nicolas Boullis <address@hidden>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  Hi Rocky,
>>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 05:17:26AM -0400, Rocky Bernstein wrote:
>>>
>>>> Lastly, the doc/FAQ.txt file has a copyright notice, with the "All
>>>> rights reserved." sentence. Isn't it non-free?
>>>>
>>> Sorry for bothering you, but do you have an opinion on this one?
>>> I cannot start the Debian transition to libcdio 0.92 (or the upcoming
>>> 0.93) without packages for libcdio-paranoia, and I cannot ship a
>>> non-free documentation within Debian main.
>>> Do you have a reason to think this file is free? Or should I use a
>>> stripped-down tarball?
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> --
>>> Nicolas
>>>
>>>
>
>