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

[Diego Biurrun]

On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 05:58:54PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 05:46:00PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 11:39:03AM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> > > On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 04:13:47PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > > > In libavformat/ dv1394.h is marked as GPL while dv1394.c is marked as
> > > > LGPL.  While this is probably an oversight, this makes FFmpeg versions
> > > > compiled with dv1394 support effectively GPL.  It's compiled in by
> > > > default on platforms that support it.  This looks like a simple
> > > > oversight, but probably the original author should be asked before this
> > > > is changed or the code put under CONFIG_GPL.
> > > 
> > > Yes this probably won't be an issue but should be resolved.
> > 
> > I'll drop the authors a mail, hopefully they react...
> 
> If only the author were clear..  Kino uses an LGPL version of that file:
> 
> http://kino.cvs.sourceforge.net/kino/kino/src/dv1394.h?revision=1.1&view=markup

It's a Linux kernel header and thus clearly GPL.  Interesting that Kino
is using it as LGPL.  Anybody from Kino listening to this?

Diego