New lame upstream release?

[Andres Mejia]

Hi,

I'm curious to know if there will be another release of lame soon. I
ask since it seems with some recent activity in Debian, lame will
finally be allowed to be distributed in Debian.

Also, could this patch be committed for the next release? It would
leave no doubt that lame is licensed under LGPL-2.

--- a/frontend/parse.c
+++ b/frontend/parse.c
@@ -396,32 +396,24 @@
 {                       /* print version & license */
     lame_version_print(fp);
     fprintf(fp,
-            "Can I use LAME in my commercial program?\n"
-            "\n"
-            "Yes, you can, under the restrictions of the LGPL.  In
particular, you\n"
-            "can include a compiled version of the LAME library (for
example,\n"
-            "lame.dll) with a commercial program.  Some notable
requirements of\n"
-            "the LGPL:\n" "\n");
-    fprintf(fp,
-            "1. In your program, you cannot include any source code
from LAME, with\n"
-            "   the exception of files whose only purpose is to
describe the library\n"
-            "   interface (such as lame.h).\n" "\n");
-    fprintf(fp,
-            "2. Any modifications of LAME must be released under the LGPL.\n"
-            "   The LAME project (www.mp3dev.org) would appreciate being\n"
-            "   notified of any modifications.\n" "\n");
+            "Copyright (c) 1999-2011 by The LAME Project\n"
+            "Copyright (c) 1999,2000,2001 by Mark Taylor\n"
+            "Copyright (c) 1998 by Michael Cheng\n"
+            "Copyright (c) 1995,1996,1997 by Michael Hipp: mpglib\n" "\n");
     fprintf(fp,
-            "3. You must give prominent notice that your program is:\n"
-            "      A. using LAME (including version number)\n"
-            "      B. LAME is under the LGPL\n"
-            "      C. Provide a copy of the LGPL.  (the file COPYING
contains the LGPL)\n"
-            "      D. Provide a copy of LAME source, or a pointer
where the LAME\n"
-            "         source can be obtained (such as www.mp3dev.org)\n"
-            "   An example of prominent notice would be an \"About
the LAME encoding engine\"\n"
-            "   button in some pull down menu within the executable
of your program.\n" "\n");
-    fprintf(fp,
-            "4. If you determine that distribution of LAME requires a
patent license,\n"
-            "   you must obtain such license.\n" "\n" "\n");
+            "This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or\n"
+            "modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public\n"
+            "License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either\n"
+            "version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
version.\n"
+            "\n"
+            "This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,\n"
+            "but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of\n"
+            "MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
See the GNU\n"
+            "Library General Public License for more details.\n"
+            "\n"
+            "You should have received a copy of the GNU Library
General Public\n"
+            "License along with this program. If not, see\n"
+            "<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.\n");
     return 0;
 }


Note the single space at the end.

-- 
Regards,
Andres Mejia
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