Bug#578161: liblivemedia-dev: GPL patch is incompatible with LGPL distribution

[Eric Dantan Rzewnicki]

On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 07:26:52PM +0300, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> Le samedi 17 avril 2010 18:11:07 Reinhard Tartler, vous avez écrit :
> > The patch in question [1] seems to be written by you and Felix last
> > year. Would you and Felix be willing to relicense the patch under LGPL?
> 
> I will relicense to LGPL if/when upstream live uses a publicly accessible 
> source control system with an open protocol. He refused to do that [1], and 
> hence I am unwilling to cooperate.
> 
> [1] http://lists.live555.com/pipermail/live-devel/2009-December/011590.html
> 
> > This would not require applications that use liblivemedia to be licensed
> > under the GPL as well.
> 
> Debian (and I assume Ubuntu) only use live555 from VLC and MPlayer. Both of 
> those are already GPL'd, so that's not really an issue.

dvswitch's development branch also uses it. Not yet in Debian and also
GPL, but, just to say there are more than 2 apps ...

-edrz