[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 590964] New: Varying licensing in COPYING in releases

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  GStreamer | gst-ffmpeg | Ver: git
           Summary: Varying licensing in COPYING in releases
           Product: GStreamer
           Version: git
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: Normal
         Component: gst-ffmpeg
        AssignedTo: gstreamer-bugs at lists.sourceforge.net
        ReportedBy: leio at gentoo.org
         QAContact: gstreamer-bugs at lists.sourceforge.net
     GNOME version: Unspecified
   GNOME milestone: Unspecified


When a COPYING file is missing, autotools copies one in and ships it with
tarballs. What license (GPL2 or GPL3) it copies, depends on the version of
automake.
Due to that the previous release tarballs have been having pretty random
COPYING files.
For example 0.10.5 COPYING said GPL3, 0.10.6 said GPL2, and 0.10.7 was GPL3
again.

Edward also said this is even more complex, as it depends on the libav*
licensing it is being linked against, but I suppose that's a LGPL vs GPL thing,
not GPL2 vs GPL3.

Please clear up the licensing found in COPYING file, instead of random GPL
version based on release managers used automake version.


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