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

Diego Biurrun diego
Mon Sep 4 01:01:15 CEST 2006


On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 11:51:23PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> writes:
> 
> > On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 10:26:10PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> >> On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 06:11:38PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> >> > Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> writes:
> >> > 
> >> > > On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 04:13:47PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> >> > > All references to mpegaudiotab.h I found with Google point back to
> >> > > FFmpeg or programs derived from FFmpeg.
> >> > >
> >> > > If you look at the file you'll see that it's just a bunch of constants
> >> > > and tables.  Since we're operating under the assumption that these are
> >> > > not copyrightable I suggest we remove the silly line about its license.
> >> > > In any case, it already claims to be (c) Fabrice ...
> >> > 
> >> > If they are copied from the ISO spec, they can't be (c) Fabrice.  In
> >> > fact, if that's where they come from, they have to be non-copyrightable,
> >> > or we can't legally distribute them.  Is Fabrice around?
> >> 
> >> I'll send a mail to Fabrice in order to doublecheck, but if you have a
> >> look at the file and another at the file in its initial revision you
> >> will see that it's just a bunch of tables and constants.  We're
> >> operating under the assumption that these are not copyrightable anyway.
> >
> > License changed to LGPL as told by Fabrice.
> 
> But it's still just tables of numbers...  Not that I really care a
> great deal.

We have some tables of numbers with an LGPL license on it, some without.
We should be consistent, yes.  Until then...

Diego




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