[Ffmpeg-devel] overall license review - adding proper license headers

Diego Biurrun diego
Wed Oct 4 10:32:58 CEST 2006


On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 09:01:43PM +0200, Aurelien Jacobs wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 15:38:51 +0200
> Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 04:13:47PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > > 
> > > [...] 
> > 
> > Now that all files carry license headers, I have one final thing I wish
> > to accomplish: Currently all our files carry the boilerplate LGPL
> > license header, which reads "This library ...".  I'd like to replace
> > "This library" with "FFmpeg", which is a bit more descriptive, and add
> > one line that says "This file is part of FFmpeg.".
> 
> I basicaly agree, but I wonder if it wouldn't be better to write
> "libavcodec" (respectively libavformat, libswscale...) instead of FFmpeg ?

No, I'd go with FFmpeg, it's more general and thus more resistant to
renaming :)

Diego




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