Comment 7 for bug 267614

On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 12:29:38 +0200, Holger Levsen <email address hidden>
wrote:

> A while ago cinelerra(-cvs) 2.1 has been released and I would like to
> know if the issues described in this bug (see
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=331072) and
> specifically the
> licence-issues listed in
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi/cinelerra-cvs-sources.txt?bug=331072;msg=25;att=1
> have been fixed.

  Hardly. The strongest itch for the users and coders on the <cinelerra at
skolelinux>
mailing list is getting desired features and losing annoying bugs. After
that comes
better usability and documentation. Licensing issues are "if we ever get
around to it"
stuff. :-(

  Suggested action: If you, Holger, could infer what the correct license
_should_ be
for each file, based on other files in the same package or library and
sound
judgement, you could add those licences as a patch. The patch should be
made against
the upstream (the sources from heroines.sourceforge.net) and sent to the
upstream
author <email address hidden>, with a brief comment.

  Then cross fingers and wait... If upstream accepts the licence patch,
rejoice, we
can have Cinelerra adopted by license-concious distros like Debian. If
not... well,
let's not decide what to do in that case yet.

  Merging the license patch with Cinelerra-CV should not cause many
conflicts,
so I am sure that our great Subversion mongers would be happy to help with
that. :-)

--
Herman Robak