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

[Diego Biurrun]

On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 11:47:59AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 04:13:47PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > 
> > [...]
> 
> I stumbled over another (the last?) issue, libavcodec/sparc/vis.h is
> marked as GPL, although the initial commit log message says they can be
> used as LGPL with permission from the author.  The other file in that
> directory, libavcodec/sparc/dsputil_vis.c, has a completely confused
> license header that claims both GPL and LGPL.  I'll apply the attached
> patch and switch both to LPGL proper by mid-week if I don't hear any
> objections.

Committed.

> --- libavcodec/sparc/vis.h	(revision 6597)
> +++ libavcodec/sparc/vis.h	(working copy)
> @@ -2,21 +2,20 @@
>   * vis.h
>   * Copyright (C) 2003 David S. Miller <davem at redhat.com>
>   *
> - * This file is part of mpeg2dec, a free MPEG-2 video stream decoder.
> - * See http://libmpeg2.sourceforge.net/ for updates.
> + * This file is part of FFmpeg.

I'm having a bit of second thoughts about this hunk, although I think
it's just a little bit of historical technicality.  David agreed to have
this file integrated in FFmpeg as LGPL and it is now a part of FFmpeg,
so it might as well be labeled as such.

Diego