gmerlin new upstream contains BSD-4-clause licensed code :-(

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 06:39:47PM +0100, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
>i think we can assume that we do have posix-semaphores, so we can get 
>rid of the file alltogether.
>
>>
>> but of course it would have been way to easy if it just worked...
>>
>
>after a quick inspection, it turns out that the file is used by 3
>C-files, so that's easy to handle.
>
>the bad news is, that bg_sem.h is installed into /usr/include/gmerlin, 
>so we sould indeed have to provide a replacement, to keep source-code 
>compatible
>
><snip>
>#include <semaphores.h>
></snip>

Sounds sensible.

So...:

  1) strip ill-licensed file from source
  2) add your one-liner replacement file via a patch


  - Jonas

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