[SCM] gmerlin-avdecoder/master: Update copyright (still BSD-4 flaws to workout, though).

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 12:23:45AM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>On Fri, 2010-12-10 at 00:23 -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>> Does having it sit in the source (and not build it) present any
>> problems? I don't think so, since the BSD-4 stuff does not mix with
>> the GPL-2 stuff.
>
>Its kind of grey if this is ok.  The license seems to say that the
>advertising clause would only take effect if the file is used in the
>software, not just distributed as is.  But its not very clear to me.

Your question is right, Felipe, but the problem is not GPL compatibility 
(which kicks in only for binary code).  The problem is with DFSG not 
allowing to redistribute code containing the advertising clause of 
BSD-4.


>Much better would be if upstream (Burkhard) used one of the New BSD or
>GPL'ed version of this file, like:
>http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/head/sys/libkern/inet_aton.c
>http://doxygen.postgresql.org/inet__aton_8c-source.html

Yes.

We _must_ rip out the BSD-4 licensed code from our source.  We _can_ 
simply rip it out, and then add a Debian-specific patch reapplying one 
of those alternative files, but would be much better if upstream did it.


  - Jonas

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