[SCM] gpac/master: clarify license of reedsolomon files

siretart at users.alioth.debian.org siretart at users.alioth.debian.org
Sat Feb 22 20:14:27 UTC 2014


The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 2b3abbfedc5a14835b7b427180e6543abf825a8a
Author: Reinhard Tartler <siretart at tauware.de>
Date:   Sat Feb 22 20:13:31 2014 +0000

    clarify license of reedsolomon files
    
    Lintian has problems parsing this, so other tools may fail in a similar
    way. The "or other" part is explained in the comment below, and for
    packaging purposes, GPL-3 is just fine.

diff --git a/debian/copyright b/debian/copyright
index e0e79b2..a15145b 100644
--- a/debian/copyright
+++ b/debian/copyright
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ License: Zlib
 Files: include/gpac/internal/reedsolomon.h
        src/media_tools/reedsolomon.c
 Copyright: © 1991-1996, Henry Minsky (hqm at ua.com), Universal Access Inc.
-License: GPL-3+ or other
+License: GPL-3+
 Comment: Copyright information is not given in the source files, however, the
  website where this code can be found states that this code is licensed under
  the GPL-3+, with the option of licensing the code under different terms.

-- 
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