GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 531035
[cdparanoia] Should depend on LGPL'd version of the library and change license string
Last modified: 2009-06-19 21:36:23 UTC
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #413705 +++ Hi, once cdparanoia was released under the LGPL with next version we should depend on that version and change the license string in the plugin.
Cdparanoia 0.10 is now out and we should depend on that as its LGPL.
http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/cdparanoia/
Maybe we should get this done for the upcoming releases already?
agreed, cdparanoia is basically unchanged from its previous release apart from the new licensing.
Ok, so there are two problems now IMHO: a) We would depend on something that was released just a week before the gst-plugins-base release. Some people always complained if we depended on something that was released some months ago because "it's too new". b) LGPLv3 being incompatible with GPLv2-only. That's IMHO not our problem but the one of applications that provide CD ripping but are GPLv2-only. They have exactly the same problem anyway if someone has the new cdparanoia installed, no matter if we depend on exactly that new version or not.
Ok, talked to Monty. Seems we will be getting a LGPLv2 or higher release of cdparanoia.
cdparanoia has an LGPL v2.1 license since v0.10.1. Unfortunately there's neither a .pc file for cdparanoia, nor are there any version defines in the headers, or any distinguishing API, so the best thing we can do is grep for 'CopyPolicy: GNU Lesser General Public License 2.1 applies' in the headers as far as I can tell (sigh).
commit b20b37518068dd0de0ec7d1e81e065a2c86cf73a Author: Tim-Philipp Müller <tim.muller@collabora.co.uk> Date: Fri Jun 19 22:16:43 2009 +0100 cdparanoia: run-time license is LGPL now that we require cdparanoia 0.10.2 cdparanoia has an LGPL v2.1 license since 0.10.1 and we now require 0.10.2. Finally fixes #531035.