Bug#618968: Do not use ffmpeg in netgen

[Francesco Poli]

On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 21:48:20 +0100 Anton Gladky wrote:

> 2012/11/28 Francesco Poli <invernomuto at paranoici.org>:
> > libav-0.8.4/libavcodec/x86/idct_mmx.c
> > which is licensed under the GNU GPL v2 or later.
> >
> > Does this file get compiled into a library that is linked with netgen?
> 
> Unfortunately yes [1].

I see...

> It gets compiled into libavcodec.so.53 and possibly
> other shared libs.

Well, it's a single file with a single copyright holder: I don't know,
maybe Aaron Holtzman may be contacted and persuaded to re-license the
file under the terms of the GNU LGPL v2.1 ...

Nonetheless, I still think that the problem should be attacked from the
other side: it's Open CASCADE Technology that should become
GPL-compatible, rather than all the rest being "isolated" from
GPL-licensed libraries!    :-( 

> 
> Anton
> 
> [1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=libav&arch=i386&ver=6%3A0.8.4-1&stamp=1350978749

Anton, I would like to say this explicitly: thanks for your time and
for the effort you are putting into these Open CASCADE related issues.
Even though the short-term solutions are not completely satisfying (the
real solution is persuading Open CASCADE S.A.S. to re-license in a
GPL-compatible manner, as I keep repeating like a broken record!),
I appreciate that you are trying hard to keep the affected packages in
Debian. Thanks!


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