Time to orphan libquicktime?

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 4:29 AM, forum::für::umläute
<zmoelnig at umlaeute.mur.at> wrote:
> On 2014-03-16 18:22, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>> Please let me know your thoughts on this.
>>
>
> as upstream i depend on libquicktime, so i rather keep it in debian :-)
> furthermore, lqt provides an easy, LGPL(!! rather than GPL) API which i
> think is a value on its own (e.g. as opposed to the GPL-only
> gmerlin-avdecoder API).

Given that libquicktime links against libavcodec, which is GPL, I
would argue that the effective license that packages that are built
against libquicktime in Debian is GPLv2 or later in any case.

Since it is possible to have a LGPL version of libav as well (we just
don't provide one in Debian), wouldn't it be easier for everyone if
you used libavformat directly? What's missing here, maybe I can relay
your requests?

> in any case, i will ask burkhard about his views on the future of libquicktime.

Thanks, I'm really curious what's going on here. In any case, I'd
really appreciate a helping hand here, and also on the many seemingly
dormant multimedia packages.


-- 
regards,
    Reinhard