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

[Eric Shattow]

Any objections if I help maintain debian packages?

- Eric

On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Nicolas Boullis <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 11:23:11AM +0200, Robert Kausch wrote:
>>
>> >I mention this because this is why libcdio-paranoia and libcdio were split
>> >in the first place: we couldn't mix GPL 3 or later with GPL 2 only or LGPL.
>>
>> Dug a bit deeper; the problem at that time was mixing GPL 3 or later
>> with GPL 2 only. libcdio included cdparanoia 9.8 code which was
>> released as GPL 2 only, so when libcdio changed to GPL 3 or later,
>> there was a problem. The licenses are not compatible, so the split
>> was necessary at that point.
>>
>> Later, libcdio-paranoia upgraded to cdparanoia 10.0 and then 10.2
>> which changed the license to LGPL 2.1 only for the library and GPL 2
>> or later for the tool. Both allow distributing derivative works
>> under the GPL 3 or later, so there's no problem anymore.
>
> That sounds like very good news!
> To be honnest, I am somewhat bored by incompatibilities between free
> software licences, so I am happy to read that things are getting simple
> for libcdio-paranoia (although I think things would be simpler with
> GPL2+ than with GPL3+).
>
> On the other hand, some bad news for those who care: I missed the
> deadline for library transitions for Debian Jessie. Hence, Debian Jessie
> will be shipped with libcdio 0.83. Sorry for that.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Nicolas
>