[SCM] libav/experimental: Document all licensing of binary packages in README.Debian (not partly as comment in copyright file), to avoid confusing source issued licenses with binary resolved licensing.

js at users.alioth.debian.org js at users.alioth.debian.org
Thu Jan 10 23:08:35 UTC 2013


The following commit has been merged in the experimental branch:
commit e3731d1b854c04e119853d13d0d16293d9bc201e
Author: Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk>
Date:   Thu Jan 10 23:58:07 2013 +0100

    Document all licensing of binary packages in README.Debian (not partly as comment in copyright file), to avoid confusing source issued licenses with binary resolved licensing.

diff --git a/debian/README.Debian b/debian/README.Debian
index 798b209..3d1180d 100644
--- a/debian/README.Debian
+++ b/debian/README.Debian
@@ -93,6 +93,10 @@ parts of ffmpeg were activated -- namely libpostproc, libswscale, x11grab and
 (optionally) libfaad2. If you need LGPL versions of the libraries, please
 comment out the appropriate line in debian/confflags.
 
+Because libavcodec-extra-* links against libraries that are licensed
+under Apache License 2.0, the resulting binaries are distributed under
+the GPL version 3 or later.
+
 
 Differences with unofficial ffmpeg packages
 ===========================================
diff --git a/debian/copyright b/debian/copyright
index 32f1307..913bed7 100644
--- a/debian/copyright
+++ b/debian/copyright
@@ -2,10 +2,6 @@ Format: http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
 Upstream-Name: Libav
 Upstream-Contact: libav-devel at libav.org
 Source: http://libav.org
-Comment:
- Because the libavcodec-extra-* package (since libavcodec-extra-54)
- links against libraries licensed under Apache-2.0 (not compatible with
- LGPL), effective license of that package and libav-dbg is GPL-3+.
 
 Files: *
 Copyright: 1994-2012, the Xiph.Org Foundation and contributors

-- 
Libav/FFmpeg packaging



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