[x264-devel] GPL-incompatible exras/getopt.c in x264 source

[Fabian Greffrath]

Dear x264 developers,

I have prepared .deb packages for x264 and am currently trying to get
them into the official Debian archive. During the packaging I
encountered one important problem: 

The file getopt.c in extras/ is 4-clause BSD licensed, which makes it
incompatible to the GPL, which in turn is the license for nearly all
other source files. Consequently the GPL-code may not be linked against
this single file!

I have already tried to compile x264 with the extras/getopt.c file
removed from the tarball and it compiled without problems (at least on
my i386 GNU/Linux machine). 
Nevertheless: Could you please replace this file with a GPL-compatible
one? Otherwise the code could be undistributable for Debian.

Thank you very much!

Cheers,
Fabian


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