Bug#618968: Do not use ffmpeg in netgen

[Francesco Poli]

On Sun, 2 Dec 2012 12:14:06 +0100 Francesco Poli wrote:

[...]
> On Sat, 1 Dec 2012 23:34:51 +0100 Anton Gladky wrote:
> 
> > 2012/11/28 Francesco Poli <invernomuto at paranoici.org>:
> > > 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 ...
> > 
> > It seems, the file libavcodec/x86/idct_mmx.c is obsolete and dropped by
> > upstream. It does not persist in a newer versions of the libav [1].
> [...]
> > 
> > I think, there is no need to contact the copyright-holder of the removed file.
> 
> OK, then it seems that this bug will be fixed, once the new version of
> libav has entered Debian and netgen links with it (and works properly).
> 
> In the meanwhile, maybe the Debian release managers are willing to
> grant a wheezy-ignore tag for this issue. I don't know, but it is
> probably worth asking...

Hello, I have unpleasant news for this bug, unfortunately.

I found out that basically *all* libav binary packages are effectively
under the GNU GPL v2 or later (some are even under the GNU GPL v3 or
later).

I suggested [1] to clearly document this situation, since it's
currently not apparent at all.

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/698019

It seems that netgen should really disable any linking with libav
libraries, until Open CASCADE S.A.S. is persuaded to re-license Open
CASCADE Technology under GPLv2-and-v3-compatible terms.

I am sorry to be the bad news messenger... 


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