[FFmpeg-devel] libswscale/yuv2rgb_init.c license

Luca Abeni lucabe72
Tue Jul 3 16:10:43 CEST 2007


Hi Diego,

Diego Biurrun wrote:
[...]
>> So, I reversed some changes, and yuv2rgb_init.c is currently not used. I
>> left it there in case someone (not me - if the original author is
>> against LGPL, I'll not try to "rewrite" that code) was interested in
>> working on it, rewriting the GPLed parts.
> 
> This was bad.  You should have documented this in the file header and
> slapped a GPL license on it, plus a copyright notice indicating the
> original author.  Unfortunately the file is already gone so this is not
> so easy to fix anymore.

I think the file is still in svn history, no? So, if needed it can be 
"resurrected", and the header can be fixed in the proper way.


>  We should probably update the copyright notice of yuv2rgb.c, though.

I am not going to touch those files anymore ;-)
I think the original author of that file should send a patch for fixing 
the information in the header and copyright


> P.S.: It would improve the readability of your emails if you could
> insert a blank line between your text and the quotes.

Sorry, I didn't know... I'll try to properly spacing my replies in the 
future.


			Thanks,
				Luca




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