338348 – media-sound/fluidsynth is under LGPL license, not GPL

Bug 338348 - media-sound/fluidsynth is under LGPL license, not GPL

Summary: media-sound/fluidsynth is under LGPL license, not GPL

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Sound Team

URL:	http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/flui...
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Reported:	2010-09-22 11:07 UTC by James Le Cuirot
Modified:	2010-10-13 06:19 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description James Le Cuirot gentoo-dev

2010-09-22 11:07:18 UTC

I was quietly mulling over the idea of adding FluidSynth support to SDL_mixer so I went to check the license and noticed it was wrong in the ebuild. It should be LGPL. They don't seem to state a version.

Comment 1 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn gentoo-dev

2010-09-22 11:34:01 UTC

It is LGPL-2 according to COPYING.

Comment 2 Tim Harder gentoo-dev

2010-10-13 06:19:21 UTC

Fixed in CVS.