Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (798 mails)

[Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Dave Plater <davejplater@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 02/06/2011 04:26 PM, Joerg Schilling wrote:
<snip>
> > libcdio                                                | GPLv2+
> > wrong....
> >
> > Correct: libcdio is based on code from cdd2awav, that in former times has 
> > been
> >       published under GPLv2, For this reason, libcdio cannot be published
> >       under GPLv2+
> >
> >       Note that there are other problems with libcdio: libcdio is usually
> >       called from LGPL code and it is questionable whether this is legally
> >       correct. For this reason, Sun did remove libcdio from Solaris in
> >       Autumn 2006 and replaced it by a library that calls cdda2wav from a
> >       pipe
> >
> >
> > My impression is that there is a need for a more in depth license review....
> >
> > 8 from 10 programs I checked are not listed correctly.
> >
> > Jörg
> Now you are prodding me a bit too hard. I maintain multimedia:libs and I
> know that those libs mostly libcdio are used in the backend of most, if
> not all media players.

Dave,

Per this bugzilla libcdio has been a problem for about 4 years

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=413705

Comment 26 says they moved it into a "ugly" directory but left it in.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=413705#c26

I have no other knowledge.  I just decided to do a little googling.

Greg
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