[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/gstreamer1/gst1-libav: fix license

Yann E. MORIN yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Sat Oct 17 09:37:58 UTC 2020


Fabrice, All,

On 2020-10-17 11:26 +0200, Fabrice Fontaine spake thusly:
> Commit 15dc48ca9becafec6ba11b08af18453bc0e40c9e forgot to change
> the license which is LGPL-2.1+ since version 1.17.1 and
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-libav/-/commit/c437e175ad9c82732ac46e36ccc398ad041bf13b
> 
> Fixes:
>  - http://autobuild.buildroot.org/results/848d7c49a01f719397cb2e8a8f8e3bd73bd03df4
> 
> Signed-off-by: Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice at gmail.com>
> ---
>  package/gstreamer1/gst1-libav/gst1-libav.hash | 2 +-
>  package/gstreamer1/gst1-libav/gst1-libav.mk   | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/package/gstreamer1/gst1-libav/gst1-libav.hash b/package/gstreamer1/gst1-libav/gst1-libav.hash
> index 9a74465e09..9e4b9b1c27 100644
> --- a/package/gstreamer1/gst1-libav/gst1-libav.hash
> +++ b/package/gstreamer1/gst1-libav/gst1-libav.hash
> @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
>  # From https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-libav/gst-libav-1.18.0.tar.xz.sha256sum
>  sha256  42f93f5ce9a3fc22051e5f783a4574b56ebf213f331f75dcbc3552459bd3a06a  gst-libav-1.18.0.tar.xz
> -sha256  8177f97513213526df2cf6184d8ff986c675afb514d4e68a404010521b880643  COPYING
> +sha256  f445dc78b88496f7e20c7a2a461b95baba5865c8919b8289ac24ac0a80c6ce7a  COPYING
> diff --git a/package/gstreamer1/gst1-libav/gst1-libav.mk b/package/gstreamer1/gst1-libav/gst1-libav.mk
> index 3fd23b8185..ba296844aa 100644
> --- a/package/gstreamer1/gst1-libav/gst1-libav.mk
> +++ b/package/gstreamer1/gst1-libav/gst1-libav.mk
> @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
>  GST1_LIBAV_VERSION = 1.18.0
>  GST1_LIBAV_SOURCE = gst-libav-$(GST1_LIBAV_VERSION).tar.xz
>  GST1_LIBAV_SITE = https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-libav
> -GST1_LIBAV_LICENSE = GPL-2.0+
> +GST1_LIBAV_LICENSE = LGPL-2.1+

The upstream commit indeed mentions LGPL-2.1+, but the license text is
LGPL-2, and the soruce fiels mention LGPL-2+, e.g.:

    https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-libav/-/blob/master/ext/libav/gstav.c
    https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-libav/-/blob/master/ext/libav/gstavcfg.c
    https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-libav/-/blob/master/ext/libav/gstavvidenc.c
    https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-libav/-/blob/master/tests/check/elements/avaudenc.c

which all have:

     * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
     * modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
     * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
     * version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Could you check further if/where LGPL-2.1+ is really applicalbe, please?

Maybe check with upstream whether they really meant 2+ in that commit?

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

>  GST1_LIBAV_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
>  GST1_LIBAV_DEPENDENCIES =  host-pkgconf ffmpeg gstreamer1 gst1-plugins-base
>  GST1_LIBAV_CONF_OPTS = -Ddoc=disabled
> -- 
> 2.28.0
> 
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