[oe] mpg123 recipe LICENSE_FLAGS = "commercial" issue

[Khem Raj]

On Tuesday, September 16, 2014, Carlos Rafael Giani <dv at pseudoterminal.org>
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


In what way where the component is lgpl I would like to understand



>  This is also the reason why gst-plugins-ugly and
> gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly have this flag.
>
> Carlos
>