GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 515809
change licence of totem-subtitle-encoding.c to LGPL
Last modified: 2013-05-29 09:51:49 UTC
According to our discussion by mail and with the approval of its author, totem-subtitle-encoding.c have to be relicensed under LGPL.
Created attachment 104954 [details] [review] switch to LGPL
Created attachment 104978 [details] [review] updated, forgot on GPL reference
Could you please update the patch? Could also please attach your e-mail discussion with the author to this bug, and mention the licensing in the top-level COPYING file?
Created attachment 110034 [details] [review] updated patch + COPYING
Created attachment 110035 [details] mail approving the relicensing
Please use the proper heading for the LGPL. LGPL v2 is outdated: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.1.html#SEC4
Created attachment 110646 [details] [review] use proper header
This problem has been fixed in the development version. The fix will be available in the next major software release. Thank you for your bug report.
That file seems to have been copied largely from gnome-terminal's src/encoding.c which is GPL, so just the permission of the person(s) who took it and changed it for totem isn't sufficient. Luckily for you, the file in g-t used to have LGPL header (see bug 464410), so it's probably ok to use it under LGPL. Adding the gstreamer exception clause that's now in totem svn probably is not ok though.
Agreed, more work for you Guillaume. The list of committers is in: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gnome-terminal/trunk/src/encoding.c?view=log Cheers
I sent a email asking them about relicensing.
My contribution to that file was trivial http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gnome-terminal/trunk/src/encoding.c?r1=669&r2=673 so you probably don't need my consent to relicense, but I'm ok with it anyway ;)
I'm with Christophe here. Ok by me if my work counts enough to worry about.
Red Hat is ok with the relicensing.
This was sorted, the file is now marked as LGPL as the original files were, and the license exception were removed.
If asked the question: "Under which license is totem distributed?" Is the answer still "GPL v2 + exceptions"?
(In reply to comment #16) > If asked the question: "Under which license is totem distributed?" Is the > answer still "GPL v2 + exceptions"? Yes.