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List:       amarok-bugs-dist
Subject:    [Bug 150308] Collection scanner linked to incompatibly-licensed
From:       John Karp <johnkarp () gmail ! com>
Date:       2007-09-28 23:49:39
Message-ID: 20070928234939.25896.qmail () ktown ! kde ! org
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------- Additional Comments From johnkarp gmail com  2007-09-29 01:49 -------
That only helps when the end-user is 'in charge', since they don't redistribute the \
binaries, and thereby don't incur the resulting license obligations.

However, if the 'person in charge' is producing a binary package for a distribution, \
their licensing obligations will prevent them from including AAC support, unless they \
can come up with a workaround.

What might work for the distributor is to build the Amarok package without AAC taglib \
support, and then to build a separate taglib package with AAC patches. Amarok would \
have to be changed to allow this, because the situation is the reverse; Amarok uses a \
taglib/AAC addin, and links with non-AAC taglib.

Or the collection scanner could be made LGPL, which is compatible with MPL.
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