Licensing of gmerlin-avdecoder regression tests

[Burkhard Plaum]

Hi,

hope this gets through, since I'm not subscribed.

Am 14.08.2010 23:04, schrieb Jonas Smedegaard:
> Hi Burkhard (cc public Debian multimedia team mailinglist),
>
> I am a Debian developer and recently got involved in the maintainance of
> multimedia project packaging.
>
> During a copyright and licensing audit I noticed an oddity of the
> headers for regression tests in your gmerlin-avdecoder project: It
> contains a copyright and parts of the standard GPL boilerplate, but
> lacks the first part actually declaring GPL as the license.
>
> Technically you do not permit redistribution of those tests, which I
> suspect was unintentional.
>
> I suggest you adjust the headers of those files for next release of your
> project.

Added my standard copyright header to tests/*.c in CVS.

>
> More troublesome, but maybe also more difficult to solve, I discovered
> that some source files are licensed as 4-clause BSD which is
> incompatible with GPLv2.
>
> These are the files I found containing 4-clause BSD licensing:
>
> lib/os.c (at line 93)
> include/bgav_sem.h
> lib/base64.c

As IOhannes already mentioned, all stuff except lib/base64.c are
fallbacks for non-Posix systems (mainly windows).

We'll try to get GPLed base64 routines.

Burkhard