Re: [fluid-dev] License trouble for Debian

[Bernat Arlandis i Mañó]

David Henningsson escrigué:
> As part of adopting fluidsynth for Debian, I've run into license trouble.
>
> First, the copyright file for VintageDreamsWaves-v2.sf2 restricts
> modification, so that sf2 must be removed. Raises the question of what
> it is doing there anyway?
>
> Second, the documentation, i e fluidsynth-v10-devdoc.xml (and the html
> directories generated from that one), goes under a Create Commons
> license which Debian does not accept (see wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses).
>
> Third, there is an doc/example.sf2 which I can't find any license for at
> all. Have any of you made it and can tell me what license it has?
>
> // David
>
>   
You shouldn't package every file in the developers repository, just what 
is needed and compatible. I recommend you to use the current package in 
debian as a starting point, it just packages the necessary files and 
should work straightaway with the current FS version.

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Bernat Arlandis i Mañó