[FFmpeg-devel] libswscale/yuv2rgb_init.c license

Diego Biurrun diego
Tue Jul 10 20:02:21 CEST 2007


On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 08:40:59PM +0300, Uoti Urpala wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 12:26 +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> 
> > IMO all license-related issues should - as far as possible - not rely on
> > people doing the right thing and taking extra steps.
> 
> That's not a practical guideline. Going "as far as possible" to do all
> possible license-related work in advance in case someone would later
> need it would be silly. Clearly documenting the license should be
> enough, and a short file explicitly explaining it does that at least as
> well as or better than another version of the file with different
> license headers. If you start adding modified copies of files to the
> history only for the purpose of allowing later users (with currently no
> indication that it will be useful) to take that version directly without
> editing then there are more relevant files you could add.

Which files could I add?

Diego




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