[Libav-user] License Compliance Checklist

[Robin Stevens]

On Saturday, June 27, 2015, Nicolas George <george at nsup.org> wrote:

> Le nonidi 9 messidor, an CCXXIII, Robin Stevens a écrit :
> > If you give them the right to distribute your software, you should limit
> it
> > redistribution of an unmodified copy, which would avoid this (and other)
> > problem(s).
>
> Definitely not. Restricting redistribution to unmodified copies is contrary
> to all that Libre Software stands for.
>
> To make it clear that re-distribution of modified copies is done under the
> responsibility of the person doing it, a standard disclaimer should be
> enough.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
>   Nicolas George
> _______________________
>

I was assuming his software was binary only, not source, and therefore not
particularly free - hence the concern over GPL vs LGPL.

Cheers
Rob
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