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

[grossepoubelle at free.fr]

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

[Resent, I forgot the BTS]

>Interesting. Can you explain in a bit more detail?

Nothing new here. Fabian Greffrath's replied the same when someone asked to 
link    
mediatomb against mp4v2 :
                
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=696551#19

>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code under a newer version of the license, such as MPL2.0 which is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

IANAL too, but you can find several pages saying that MPL isn't compatible  
with GPL like this one :
                        
http://www.tomhull.com/ocston/docs/mozgpl.html