Bug#859793: fluidsynth: Package has infringed GPL

[Javier Serrano Polo]

El dl 10 de 04 de 2017 a les 23:06 +0200, Peter Hanappe va escriure:
> However, it seems that chorus.c is now under the LGPL license. From
> https://sourceforge.net/p/sox/code/ci/master/tree/COPYING:

As I understand, fluidsynth_chorus.c was imported from SoX rather than
the original project by Juergen Mueller. Thus, Chris Bagwell is the one
who can shed light on the origin.

> However, since fluidsynth was under LGPL
> with "Copyright (C) 2003 Peter Hanappe and others" from the
> beginning, I don't believe any contributors to
> fluidsynth_chorus.c would object to putting their changes to that
> file under the LGPL. I'll happily make my changes available under
> that license.

That makes sense. However, the main problem is the permission from
Juergen Mueller and related contributors.

> So, because SoX/chorus.c is now under the LGPL and all the
> changes that have been made between chorus.c and
> fluidsynth_chorus.c fall under the LGPL, I believe that
> fluidsynth_chorus.c can be put under the LGPL, too.

I see no evidence to support such relicensing. Original copyright should
be to dropped if there is no trace from the original file, but this does
not seem to be the case.
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