Re: [Libcdio-devel] Packaging libcdio 0.92 and libcdio-paranoia 10.2+0.90+1 for Debian

[Robert Kausch]

Hi Rocky,

I had a look at the licenses of cdparanoia 10.2 and cdio-paranoia source 
files.

In cdparanoia, the only files that carry a GPL license are cachetest.c 
and main.c (which would be cd-paranoia.c in cdio-paranoia). Everything 
else, including the whole library, is LGPL licensed.

In cdio-paranoia about half the files are GPL, the other half LGPL. I 
think this is because the license of cdparanoia used to be the GPL until 
svn revision 14871. In revision 14872, they changed the license to LGPL, 
but that switch was never made in cdio-paranoia.

As cdio-paranoia is now based on the latest cdparanoia release which, 
except for the two files mentioned above, is LGPL licensed, we could 
change the license to LGPL as well. Only the cd-paranoia tool would 
still have to be GPL licensed.

Tell me what you think.

Robert

Am 15.09.2014 um 13:43 schrieb Rocky Bernstein:
> My intent was to make this identical to
> http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/cdparanoia/cdparanoia-III-10.2.src.tgz
> from https://www.xiph.org/paranoia/down.html
>
> I may have botched things though. If there are discrepancies, I'd
> appreciate it if you or others would fix and make a pull request off of the
> git repository https://github.com/rocky/libcdio-paranoia
>
> I see that doc/FAQ.txt isn't in the source mentioned above. So maybe we
> remove that file?
>
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 5:56 AM, Nicolas Boullis <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi Rocky,
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 05:17:26AM -0400, Rocky Bernstein wrote:
> > > Lastly, the doc/FAQ.txt file has a copyright notice, with the "All
> > > rights reserved." sentence. Isn't it non-free?
> > Sorry for bothering you, but do you have an opinion on this one?
> > I cannot start the Debian transition to libcdio 0.92 (or the upcoming
> > 0.93) without packages for libcdio-paranoia, and I cannot ship a
> > non-free documentation within Debian main.
> > Do you have a reason to think this file is free? Or should I use a
> > stripped-down tarball?
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > --
> > Nicolas