[Pkg-mpd-maintainers] Bug#767504: Bug#767504: mpd: licence clash with libmp4v2 (MPL) and mpd GPL-+2

[Florian Schlichting]

Hi Simon,

On Sun, Nov 02, 2014 at 01:13:56PM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> Sorry, but the bug submitter appears to be correct here.

thank you for your detailed explanation about upgrading to MPL-2.0 - it
is indeed more complex than I originally thought: what looks
straight-forward in MPL-1.1 is modified to be useless for the purpose at
hand by a special provision in MPL-2.0 §1.5. So either libmp4v2 would
need to be co-licensed under the GPL, or the mpd authors would need to
give permission to link mpd against libmp4v2 as described in the GPL FAQ
(http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLIncompatibleLibs), and
while it would appear that they have done so by providing a configure
option to that effect, there may be other GPL code linked into the work
where this is not the case...

I'll prepare an upload disabling libmp4v2 in the next few days.

Florian