[FFmpeg-devel] some licensing issues
Diego Biurrun
diego
Mon Jul 9 14:41:16 CEST 2007
I've stumbled across a few more licensing issues/nitpicks:
The following files contain the words "All rights reserved" in the
licensing header:
libswscale/yuv2rgb.c
libswscale/yuv2rgb_mlib.c
libswscale/yuv2rgb_template.c
libavcodec/alac.c
libavcodec/armv4l/simple_idct_arm.S
This wording with a subsequent grant of rights through the (L)GPL is
meaningless, but I'm afraid the term is one that easily raises red flags
when people stumble across it. Thus I would like to remove it.
The following two header files still lack licensing headers:
libavcodec/rl.h
libavcodec/xvmc_render.h
I'll add the standard LGPL headers if nobody objects.
Then we have the files
cws2fws.c
qt-faststart.c
which are placed in the public domain. AFAIU the public domain is a
US-only thing and not internationally applicable. Mike added the line
"Use the program however you see fit." to qt-faststart.c, which is
probably enough to achieve the desired effect, but cws2fws.c does not
have it.
I'm not sure how best to proceed here. Adding a one-line statement to
the effect of what we have in qt-faststart.c seems like the most
sensible thing to do.
Diego
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