Em Fri, 11 Jan 2013 01:12:33 +0000 Jonathan McCrohan <jmccrohan@xxxxxxxxx> escreveu: > On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 21:55:28 +0100, Oliver Schinagl wrote: > > Actually, there's plenty of apps etc that depend on it. I know some > > distro's install it into /usr/share/dvb for all to use. I think actually > > only a very small handfull use their own scanfiles. Very small handfull > > I belive ;) > > Indeed. I have just gone to file an Intent To Package bug for the > dtv-scan-tables package in Debian, but I noticed that the COPYING and > README files were not split out from the dvb-apps tree. > > Logically it would follow that dtv-scan-tables is also licenced under > LGPL, the same as dvb-apps, but this needs to be stated explicitly. > This is especially true for distributions which be redistributing > dtv-scan-tables. As this is currently a copy of the dvb-apps, and the other patches added there are sent meant to be merged at dvb-apps, the license that applies on it should be inherited. That's said, this is just database entries where the values were obtained from a public service. Anyone else with access to the same transponders/carriers would be obtaining the very same data. So, I don't think that copyright law applies here. IANAL, but it sounds to me that such info would be public domain. Yet, to avoid legal issues, I suggest to copy the COPYING from the dvb-apps tree. Also, sooner or later a Makefile will likely be added there, and maybe some ancillary scripts. So, it makes sense to state the license there anyway. Regards, Mauro -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
