Bug#578161: liblivemedia-dev: GPL patch is incompatible with LGPL distribution

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 16:11:13 (CEST), Remi Denis-Courmont wrote:

> The liblivemedia-dev packages applies a patch explicitly licensed under
> the GPL. In my understanding, this makes the resulting binaries GPL.

This matches my understanding.

> Yet the copyright file claims Debian provides the package under LGPL.
> Please remove the setlocale patch or fix the licensing informations.

The patch in question [1] seems to be written by you and Felix last
year. Would you and Felix be willing to relicense the patch under LGPL?
This would not require applications that use liblivemedia to be licensed
under the GPL as well.

[1] http://bit.ly/cnxp6B
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