d-m.o dependency tree

Fabian Greffrath fabian at greffrath.com
Fri Feb 10 08:59:35 UTC 2012


Am 10.02.2012 09:49, schrieb Alessio Treglia:
> And regarding MPL-1.1, it says [2]: "This is a free software license
> which is not a strong copyleft; unlike the X11 license, it has some
> complex restrictions that make it incompatible with the GNU GPL. That
> is, a module covered by the GPL and a module covered by the MPL cannot
> legally be linked together. We urge you not to use the MPL for this
> reason. [...]"

Ah, I have mixed up MPL-2.0 and MPL-1.1.
libmp4v2 is licensed under the latter.

> So, if the faac's CLI frontend links against mp4v2 yes, it is affected
> by a serious issue and we must disable the offending linking flag.
> Otherwise, no, it isn't.

That's a clear statement, thanks! No need for -devel this time. ;)




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