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khenriks / mp3fs

FUSE-based transcoding filesystem from FLAC to MP3
http://khenriks.github.io/mp3fs/
GNU General Public License v3.0
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please clarify licensing #62

Closed fabiangreffrath closed 4 years ago

fabiangreffrath commented 5 years ago

Hi there,

apparently, the mp3fs project is licensed under different licenses: GPL3+ for the code and GFDL for the docs - which is already a pretty unfortunate combination: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Free_Documentation_License#GPL_incompatible_in_both_directions

Furthermore, it seems that only 3 files are licensed under GFDL: NEWS, README.md and mp3fs.1.txt. Only the first file, NEWS, contains the GFDL license blurb with the "no invariant sections" clause, which would make the license DFSG-compatible.

So:

Thank you very much!

khenriks commented 4 years ago

Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I didn't realize how much of a mess it was, and your link prompted me to have a bit of looking around, including at the DFSG. I've opted to dual-license all documentation under GFDL 1.3+ (explicitly specifying no invariant sections) and GPL 3+.

fabiangreffrath commented 4 years ago

Great, thanks for this! I'd like to bring this to the attention of @nschlia, the author of ffmpegfs, i.e. a derived work.

nschlia commented 4 years ago

Great! I'll incorporate the license change into my fork as soon as it's available.

nschlia commented 4 years ago

Update license on my side with https://github.com/nschlia/ffmpegfs/commit/a3bfb1a51579a3320616bfed23d9eec251077b9d

Thanks a lot!