Ubuntu VLC package license violation
Bug #489093 reported by
Rémi Denis-Courmont
This bug affects 1 person
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: vlc
The VLC binary packages in Ubuntu claim to be licensed under GPL version 2. From /usr/share/
"On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General
Public License can be found in `/usr/share/
However, the vlc-nox packages has a linking dependency against libsmbclient, which is under LGPL version 3 (in the version that Ubuntu ships).
Please either drop SaMBa support, or use an old (L)GPLv2 version of libsmbclient or switch the VLC package license to GPLv3. In the later case, you will need to check that there is no (L)GPLv2 only dependencies though.
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This is actually worse. The same vlc-nox package links against a version of taglib which is LGPL v2.1 only.
Hence, I believe the package is not legally redistributable as is in most jurisdiction.