faac as a whole is not distributable under LGPL (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAAC#Licensing), so license in ebuild should reflect that. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: N/A Expected Results: License should be changed to LGPL. as-is.
The license of the MPEG-4 reference code is as follows, and I'd say that it's _not_ what we call "as-is": This software module was originally developed by Nokia in the course of development of the MPEG-2 AAC/MPEG-4 Audio standard ISO/IEC13818-7, 14496-1, 2 and 3. This software module is an implementation of a part of one or more MPEG-2 AAC/MPEG-4 Audio tools as specified by the MPEG-2 aac/MPEG-4 Audio standard. ISO/IEC gives users of the MPEG-2aac/MPEG-4 Audio standards free license to this software module or modifications thereof for use in hardware or software products claiming conformance to the MPEG-2 aac/MPEG-4 Audio standards. Those intending to use this software module in hardware or software products are advised that this use may infringe existing patents. The original developer of this software module, the subsequent editors and their companies, and ISO/IEC have no liability for use of this software module or modifications thereof in an implementation. Copyright is not released for non MPEG-2 aac/MPEG-4 Audio conforming products. The original developer retains full right to use the code for the developer's own purpose, assign or donate the code to a third party and to inhibit third party from using the code for non MPEG-2 aac/MPEG-4 Audio conforming products. This copyright notice must be included in all copies or derivative works. Copyright (c) 1997. The tarball also contains some files with other licenses, namely GPL-2, BSD, and MPL-1.1. (Maybe more, but I've only done a quick scan.)
(In reply to comment #1) > The license of the MPEG-4 reference code is as follows, [...] I've committed this as licenses/MPEG-4 and changed the ebuild to say LICENSE="MPEG-4 LGPL-2.1". > The tarball also contains some files with other licenses, namely GPL-2, BSD, > and MPL-1.1. These are used by files in the common/Cfaac, libfaac/kiss_fft, and common/mp4v2 directories which are not actually installed.
