On 02/03/2011 01:49 AM, Juergen Weigert wrote:
On Feb 03, 11 00:53:39 +0200, Dave Plater wrote:
One of the new two new packages I've submitted to factory bears the text in the copying file : The LV2 header lv2.h is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License, The LV2 data file lv2.ttl is licensed under a BSD-style license,
lv2.ttl? Ah, we are talking about multimedia:libs lv2core
What should I put in the License: field?
To be exact, I'd sugest License: LGPLv2.1+ ; X11 MIT ; GPLv2+ ; BSD3c
The header of lv2.ttl comes very close to the archetypical MIT license. See http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
The 3-Clause BSD license is found in the script wav. The GPL license is found in the script autowaf.py.
As far as I can make out, the licensing of the build system components aren't a problem it's just the components of the final built package and what they link to, which is a pure devel package, that count. The package description, which I copy pasted from the upstream website states that lv2.h is the only file needed for linking purposes and lv2.ttl is a manifest providing information for the actual plugins. I never realised the extent of the knowledge needed for packaging before.
'BSD' in the general sense could qualify as 'close enough', but it is unspecific.
Although the GPL is the 'strongest' license, I'd still put LGPL first in the list, as this is the main License according to upstream.
cheers, JW-
I'm going to find out soon, slv2 (also multimedia:libs) is already under legal review and it contains "hosts/jack_compat.h" with a header that doesn't specify GPLv2 or later only GPLv2, jack is LGPLv2.1 I;ve filed a bug at slv2 and am waiting to see if I have to disable jack support for now. lv2core and slv2 are joined at the hip and you can have just lv2core-devel to build in LV2 plugin support but every package that can have LV2 uses slv2 as well, so far. Regards Dave P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org