[FFmpeg-cvslog] r9601 - trunk/libavcodec/mpegidct.c

[Diego Biurrun]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 03:53:37AM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 09:33:04PM -0400, Justin Ruggles wrote:
> > 
> > Well it is a poorly worded license.  It says "All Rights Reserved" and 
> > then does not proceed to grant any other rights other than the right to 
> > accept the code from the MPEG Group and to use it "as-is", but not to 
> > modify it or distribute it to others.  That's how I interpret it anyway.
> 
> true, iam not disagreeing though i do not think this is the intent of the
> authors ...

Our job is clearly not to second-guess the intent of the authors.  If
they had wished to release this as free software, they would have chosen
a suitable license.  They did not and certainly not by mistake.

License interpretations have to be conservative, minimal and with
worst-case assumptions.  Otherwise you just cannot be secure.

Diego