From: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
To: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>
Cc: Yunhao Tian <t123yh.xyz@gmail.com>,
Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice@gmail.com>,
Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>,
buildroot@buildroot.org
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/libopenaptx: drop package
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2021 22:19:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211221211914.GK2603@scaer> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <62ca9c6d-42c5-d5b4-c423-6d050fdf6ae1@mind.be>
Arnout, All,
On 2021-12-20 23:30 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle spake thusly:
> On 20/12/2021 23:08, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
[--SNIP--]
> >However, the LGPLv2.1+ does not allow one to *strip* the code of its
> >license and *replace* it with another license, even if the LGPLV2.1+ can
> >be "upgraded" to that other license.
>
> Yes it does. As I wrote, section 3:
[--SNIP--]
> I.e. anyone (not the copyright holders, but anyone) can apply GPL-2.0+ to
> the code instead of LGPL-2.1+ and continue distributing it under GPL-2.0+.
> Note the irreversible as well.
Indeed. This is something that completely eluded me. Thanks for poking
it at my nose! :-)
[--SNIP--]
> Bottom line: *we're* definitely doing nothing wrong by keeping the package,
> and I don't think we're creating problems for our users either. We're
> creating more problems by removing the package, IMHO.
OK-ish.
Though, if we were to roll back to 0.2.0, or switch to the 0.2.0-forked
libfreeaptx, we would not have any issue.
Thanks for bearing with me.
Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-19 11:04 [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/libopenaptx: drop package Yann E. MORIN
2021-12-19 11:39 ` Yunhao Tian
2021-12-20 20:36 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2021-12-20 22:08 ` Yann E. MORIN
2021-12-20 22:30 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2021-12-21 21:19 ` Yann E. MORIN [this message]
2021-12-21 21:46 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
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