[OE-core] [PATCH v3] libav: set LICENSE and LICENSE_FLAGS according to PACKAGECONFIG options

Andreas Oberritter obi at opendreambox.org
Wed Jul 16 08:42:02 UTC 2014


On 16.07.2014 10:31, Andreas Oberritter wrote:
> On 16.07.2014 08:43, Matthieu CRAPET wrote:
>> Giving --enable-gpl to configure does not convert pure 100% LGPL licensed library to GPL license. Am I wrong?
> 
> If you combine GPL'ed and LGPL'ed code, the resulting binary will be GPL'ed.
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Lesser_General_Public_License#Compatibility

Sorry, I misunderstood that part of your question. If libavutils
contains LGPL'ed code only, then there's no technical reason to
automatically convert the license of libavutils to GPL, just because
--enable-gpl was given on the comand-line. However, the libav 'LICENSE'
clearly states that it's still the case anyway, but for non-technical
reasons.

Regards,
Andreas



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