[FFmpeg-devel] Licensing gray area
Kostya
kostya.shishkov
Thu Jul 12 05:17:58 CEST 2007
On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 09:47:07PM -0400, Justin Ruggles wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm in the process of preparing the commits for the native LGPL AC-3
> decoder. But I found something that may be problematic...and then again
> may not be...
>
> I want to preserve the history in the SoC repository, but some of that
> history has a GPL violation. Part of the code is copied near-enough
> verbatim from liba52, which is GPL, but is put under the LGPL header.
> My subsequent commits will change that portion, rewriting the
> problematic code, so the result will be okay. But the violation would
> still be in the source history. So I'm not really sure how to approach
> this.
>From the DCA experience: mark those sections with something like "GPLed" so
it would be clear and then rewrite those sections with your own code.
> -Justin
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