Licensing of gmerlin-avdecoder regression tests

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 10:48:24AM +0100, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
>On 11/18/2010 10:18 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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:
>>
>the reason why i did not start packaging the CVS-snapshot is, that 
>burkhard develops gavl and gmerlin-avdec in parallel, meaning that a 
>CVS-snapshot of gmerlin-avdec _most likely_ (not confirmed though) will 
>not compile with the last released version of gavl.
>so we would have to package gavl-CVS as well.
>
>i hoped that burkhard would do a proper release of gmerlin-avdecoder,
>which has not happened yet.

I revisited the copyright issue which have improved but isn't fully 
solved by the CVS snapshot.

I do *not*, however, want to take responsibility of releasing this CVS 
snapshot - as I have pointed out numerous times in the past I generally 
dislike that packaging style, and in this case I could very well imagine 
that the 1.0.3 release would be followed by a 1.0.4 release before the 
snapshotted 1.1.0pre1 code was deemed stable by upstream.

Build-dependencies need tightening to reflect new upstream requirement, 
and probably the new --without-GSM610 option should be applied if not 
handled automagically (see "git log -p configure.ac").

Would be nice if someone would add DEP3 headers to the patches.

Oh, and the versioning of the CVS snapshot is also wrong: It lacks the 
trailing ~DFSG to hint about stripped parts.  Or, if nothing is stripped 
anymore, copyright file needs updating to reflect that!


  - Jonas

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