Bug#859793: fluidsynth: Package has infringed GPL

Fri Apr 7 19:20:06 UTC 2017

El dv 07 de 04 de 2017 a les 19:13 +0100, James Cowgill va escriure:
> FYI the license in question is the SoX license which has been in Debian
> and basically all distributions for 20 years (as part of SoX)...

So SoX and derivatives are affected too. The problem was not
detected.[3]

> The SoX project relicensed some time ago to GPL so if you are to believe
> that that was OK, then there are no licensing problems with this file
> (but the copyright header should be updated to reflect that).

Upstream file still has the old copyright.[4] Where is this relicensing
process documented?

--
[3] https://bugs.debian.org/92969
[4] https://sourceforge.net/p/sox/code/ci/master/tree/src/chorus.c
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: smime.p7s
Type: application/pkcs7-signature
Size: 3386 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-multimedia-maintainers/attachments/20170407/f70fec54/attachment-0001.bin>