Bug 252140 – media-libs/amr[nw]b removal request (was: update LICENSE)

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Luke-Jr 2008-12-22 01:46:56 UTC]

media-libs/amr[nw]b are marked as "LGPL-2 as-is". However, part of the code is not legal to redistribute, so there should be a 3rd piece to that.

[Comment 1 Ben de Groot (RETIRED) 2008-12-22 03:18:08 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 176598 ***

[Comment 2 Luke-Jr 2008-12-22 03:21:49 UTC]

Not a duplicate, and not fixed.

[Comment 3 Wormo (RETIRED) 2008-12-23 22:11:32 UTC]

This is about updating the LICENSE field in ebuild rather than mirroring issues, so I agree it hasn't been addressed. Probably it needs addition of a 3gpp license file permitting "in-house" use but not redistribution.

[Comment 4 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2009-05-10 07:55:02 UTC]

So.. can someone point us to the license page of 3gpp codecs? Might be blind, but couldn't find anything sane..

[Comment 5 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2009-10-10 19:36:02 UTC]

A small status update: amrnb and amrwb will be removed soon as the reverse deps are fixed to support opencore-amr.

From this:

http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/misc/rindex/media-libs/amrwb
http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/misc/rindex/media-libs/amrnb

To this:

http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/misc/rindex/media-libs/opencore-amr

[Comment 6 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2009-10-20 16:27:27 UTC]

These left,

=media-video/ffmpeg-0.5-r1 (media-video)
=media-video/gpac-0.4.4-r1 (media-video) (both amrnb and amrwb internal!)
=media-video/gpac-0.4.5 (media-video)
=net-voip/yate-2.0.0 (volkmar, voip)

[Comment 7 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2010-02-25 19:33:18 UTC]

*** Bug 306855 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 8 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2010-03-21 20:03:31 UTC]

Why was this closen? We have amrnb and amrwb in tree with missing license!

[Comment 9 Robin Johnson 2010-03-21 20:07:52 UTC]

<hat type="trustee">
ssuominen asked for a link to the license, and never got one. The trustees
would need to see the license to make any statements on it, and/or pass it on
for formal legal advice.

As such, this bug is RESO NEEDINFO from our side.

Alternatively, if the remaining packages using it just get removed, the problem
becomes moot.

Please either link the license, or remove the packages.
</hat>

[Comment 10 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2010-03-21 20:14:40 UTC]

(In reply to comment #9)
> <hat type="trustee">
> ssuominen asked for a link to the license, and never got one. The trustees
> would need to see the license to make any statements on it, and/or pass it on
> for formal legal advice.
> 
> As such, this bug is RESO NEEDINFO from our side.
> 
> Alternatively, if the remaining packages using it just get removed, the problem
> becomes moot.
> 
> Please either link the license, or remove the packages.
> </hat>
> 

nod, per Comment #5 we have decided to remove media-libs/amrnb, and amrwb and move on to the opencore-amr package. this bug is open to track the process,
there's still:

=media-video/ffmpeg-0.5-r1 (I suppose we can remove this old version, need to check KEYWORDS.)

=media-video/gpac-0.4.5 (I suppose we can remove the USE flag introducing these deps.)

=net-voip/yate-2.0.0 (Bug 290011)

so if trustees@ don't want to track this anymore, remove yourself from CC list, thanks.

i'll try to get this done asap, i've mostly been waiting for volkmar to deal with yate since i don't maintain it

[Comment 11 Robin Johnson 2010-03-21 20:41:39 UTC]

removing trustees then, thanks.
re-add us if you get the license and want the packages to stay.

[Comment 12 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2010-05-04 00:39:06 UTC]

gone