Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461077 --- Comment #25 from Torsten Rausche <trausche@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 2008-11-25 14:00:21 EDT --- We have following situation: [1] Nxtvepg (GPLv2) does not need the Perl script (GPLv3+). It can use the script if it is there but also runs fine without it. Both communicate with each other and exchange data. But there is no hard link between both. Nxtvepg simply pipes preprocessed data from /dev/vbi to the script, the script parses the data and gives XML as output, which in turn nxtvepg reads via pipe. My opinion is that if this is not legal then no GPLv2 UNIX tool could interact with a GPLv3+ one. Upstream also does not seem to see a problem here. [2] The Perl script (GPLv3+) can also run without nxtvepg. But it needs preprocessed input data to do something useful. This data has to come from a file or standard input. Optionally it can use the VBI device directly -- if the Perl module Video-ZVBI (GPLv2+) is available. This module is not packaged for Fedora yet. But this could be done... Because of [1] the script is included in the nxtvepg tarball. Because of [2] it is also available in its own tarball under http://nxtvepg.sourceforge.net/tv_grab_ttx I think it is enough to set License to GPLv2 and GPLv3+ and keep the script in the nxtvepg package. But I admit that my knowledge about licensing is pretty low. There is also the way to introduce two new packages (no subpackages, one for the script and one for the Video-ZVBI Perl module) and remove the script from the nxtvepg package. Of course this also means two more package reviews to work on ;-) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-review mailing list Fedora-package-review@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-review