[oe] mpg123 recipe LICENSE_FLAGS = "commercial" issue

[Denys Dmytriyenko]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 11:11:46AM +0200, Carlos Rafael Giani wrote:
> On 2014-09-16 07:43, Khem Raj wrote:
> >Hi Carlos/All
> >
> >I want to understand why LICENSE_FLAGS = "commercial" was added to
> >
> >meta-multimedia/recipes-multimedia/mpg123/mpg123_1.15.3.bb
> >
> >in initial commit and has been carried over upgrades ever since
> >
> >The license seems to be LGPL 2.0 and is explained in greater detail here
> >
> >http://mpg123.org/cgi-bin/scm/mpg123/trunk/doc/ROAD_TO_LGPL?revision=2607
> >
> >So what portions of it are having different terms for commercial distribution ?
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >-Khem
> 
> It's because MPEG audio is subject to royalties. This is also the
> reason why gst-plugins-ugly and gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly have this
> flag.

But does gst-plugins-ugly provide own codecs? It's mostly a collection of 
external plugins, so it shouldn't itself be marked as "commercial":

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.handhelds.openembedded.core/51055

-- 
Denys