Licensing of gmerlin-avdecoder regression tests

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Nov 18, 2010, at 3:44 PM, Alessio Treglia wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner  
> <hans at at.or.at> wrote:
>> I get "404 - No such project".
>
> Yes, 'cause of I've removed it as license issues are the same, I've
> just reworked the packaging.
>
>> As I remember, we just need to have a DFSG tarball, right?
>
> Yes, I can prepare a DFSG-clean tarball but it isn't the only thing we
> need, I think...



Looking back at the log of this discussion, I think we just need to  
patch mentioned below and a DFSG tarball.  Perhaps Berkhard, the  
upstream author, has already included the patch and stripped out the  
non-DFSG stuff from his CVS, so a 1.0.3~cvs package would be easier:


On Oct 7, 2010, at 7:14 AM, Reinhard Tartler wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 15:13:39 (CEST), IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
>
>> On 2010-08-16 13:21, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> As I understand it, in principle we are safe if we can ensure that
>>> 4-clause BSD only affects code parts that are not compiled into  
>>> any of
>>> the binary code that we redistribute.
>>>
>>> Ideal for us (and for other distributors, I guess) would be if those
>>> 4-clause BSD parts was placed in separate files by you upstream.   
>>> That
>>
>>
>> i have submitted a patch to burkhard (and he has quickly  
>> incorporated it
>> in upstream - thanks again) that does:
>> - rebase lib/base64.c on a clause-3 BSD licensed version of the file
>> (the new base is
>> http://mediatools.cs.ucl.ac.uk/nets/mmedia/browser/common/trunk/src/base64.c 
>> ,
>> which is simply a re-licensed (with agreement by the copyright owner)
>> version of the original file)
>> - lib/os.c has the BSD-code moved away into lib/os_inet_aton.c (which
>> can be excluded by us)
>> - include/bgav_sem.h has the BSD-code moved out into
>> include/bgav_sem_bsd.h (which can be excluded by us)
>>
>> so i think the issues are now fixed upstream...
>
> Can you add this patch to the gmerlin-avcoder package in our git?
> AFAIUI, this is the last open issue in this package that prevents it
> from being uploaded, right?

hc


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