[vlc-devel] [vlc-commits] vlc_plugin: fix non-LGPL plugins meta infos

Jean-Baptiste Kempf jb at videolan.org
Sun Mar 22 19:08:21 CET 2015


On 21 Mar, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote :
> Le samedi 21 mars 2015, 22:05:12 Jean-Baptiste Kempf a écrit :
> > Btw, why GPL this module?
> 
> I grepped the module sources for GPL and checked all matches manually. A bunch 
> of them were LGPL with the GPL dependency warning - I did not touch them.

I think you should touch them. Except dvdread, I don't think any of
those will change license in the near future.

> The only one that strikes me is Growl. Its license looks invalid: GPLv2+ 
> combined with 3-clauses BSD. That effectively means GPLv3+...

Let me look at this mess.

I need to work more on all those, seeing the recent request by numerous
people.


But actually, my question was different: Why did you license "cycle" as
GPL and not LGPL?


With my very best regards,

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