From: Carlos Rafael Giani <dv@pseudoterminal.org>
To: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>,
openembeded-devel <Openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: mpg123 recipe LICENSE_FLAGS = "commercial" issue
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 11:11:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5417FED2.1030106@pseudoterminal.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMKF1srKjh-imfCPMTW9EiZNRFVydO71LSMPzhnAFuoUWtocZg@mail.gmail.com>
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.
Carlos
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-16 9:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-16 5:43 mpg123 recipe LICENSE_FLAGS = "commercial" issue Khem Raj
2014-09-16 9:11 ` Carlos Rafael Giani [this message]
2014-09-16 21:33 ` Denys Dmytriyenko
2014-09-16 22:48 ` Carlos Rafael Giani
2014-09-17 0:20 ` Khem Raj
2014-09-17 7:09 ` Carlos Rafael Giani
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