[vlc-devel] Informational note on GPL versions

[Pavlov Konstantin]

On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 11:36:56PM +0300, R?mi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> Le lundi 9 juillet 2007, Sam Hocevar a ?crit :
> >    I'm resurrecting a message from last year, sorry about that.
> 
> > On Fri, Nov 10, 2006, R?mi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> > > There's been some informal discussions about VLC's GPL versioning
> > > on IRC this afternoon. I've had a quick look at the licenses of
> > > most of our dependencies (but definitely not all, and definitely
> > > neither fully accurate).
> 
> I note that the GPLv3 text has changed quite a bit since then (and is 
> IMHO much better now).
> 
> > > At least the following dependencies seem to be distributed under
> > > GPL version 2 with NO provision for later versions:
> > > libvcdinfo
> > > libsmbclient
> >
> >    Actually libvcdinfo is GPLv2 or later, it's the copyright file in
> > the Debian package that was wrong.
> 
> OK thanks for the clarification. Still, I did mention that I did NOT 
> check every dependencies. AFAIR, I only checked the direct Build-Deps 
> of your Debian package at the time.
> 
> >    Also libsmbclient is now *GPLv3 only*, which means binary
> > distributors need to be careful about which libraries are being used
> > (because GPLv2 and GPLv3 are incompatible).
> 
> I assume you mean it will be GPLv3 only if upgraded to Samba >= 3.2.0. 
> Which basically mean VLC will end up being GPLv3 even if we keep 
> version 2. And that applies to contrib maintainers as well.

I thought VLC should have no problems being licensed GPLv2 and later as it's now.

Am I wrong? (i build and pack vlc with smb, too)

> What's the status of GPLv3 and LGPLv3 w.r.t. DFSG still?

-- 
 The only perfect science is hind-sight.
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