[vlc-devel] [TROLL] LGPL vs GPL

[Jean-Paul Saman]

Hi,

On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb at videolan.org>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I hope I had you with the subject, but please read :)
>
> So, most of the work on relicensing playback and streaming to LGPLv2.1+
> is now done.
>

Great, well done.


> Yet, some part remains, and are listed under it.
>
> If I mark with a "??" this means I need your input.
>


> Codec:
> ------
> dts.c, because jlj
> t140, ??
>

Codecs should be LGPL (if possible).


> x264, x265, because Loren refused
>
> Control:
> --------
> DBus, gestures, hotkeys, globalhotkeys, motion, netsync, oldrc,
> ntservice.
> I think some should be moved to LGPL, like motion, because of rotate
> filter depends on it. Opinons??
>

If rotate depends on motion, then it should move to LGPL.


> Lua:
> ----
> ?? What should we do?
>

IMHO lua should be LGPL


> Misc:
> -----
> audioscrobbler, logger, stats: what should we do about those??
>
> Playlist export and misc/rtsp could be considered as sout, but are
> they??
>
> Notify:
> -------
> Not really useful. Other opionions??
>

no opinion


> SD:
> ---
> We never discussed about that, but I think LGPL for sap and upnp and
> podcast would be nice. Opinions??
>

Service discovery should be LGPL'ed


> Stream_out:
> -----------
> Duplicate is missing because of a single commit that was rewritten by
> Rémi afterwards. I don't know yet what I can legally do.
> RTP is missing because of important code,
>

Kind regard,

Jean-Paul Saman
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