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

[Florian Schlichting]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 03:27:47PM +0100, grossepoubelle at free.fr wrote:
> You can't link GPL packages against MPL packages.

Interesting. Can you explain in a bit more detail?

IANAL, but I read in MPL1.1 section 6.2 that I can choose to use the
code under a newer version of the license, such as MPL2.0 which is
deemed compatible with the GPL by the FSF. This upgrade option is made
even more explicit in section 3.1 of the MPL1.1 which says

    The Source Code version of Covered Code may be distributed only
    under the terms of this License or a future version of this
    License [...]

Florian