d-m.o dependency tree

Jonas Smedegaard dr at jones.dk
Fri Feb 10 09:17:00 UTC 2012


On 12-02-10 at 09:59am, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> 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. ;)

...or -legal ;-)


 - Jonas

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