[FFmpeg-devel] some licensing issues

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 04:33:07PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> writes:
> 
> >> > > IMO we should drop the mpeg2dec license header from that file and
> >> > > replace it with an FFmpeg one.  Of course we can add a note to the
> >> > > effect that this was once inspired by mpeg2dec.
> >> > 
> >> > My proposition is to replace the mpeg2dec header with an FFmpeg one.
> >> > Opinions?  Objections?  Otherwise I intend to do this by the end of next
> >> > week.
> >> 
> >> Michael, since this is your code: GPL or LGPL?
> >
> > yuv2rgb_mlib.c ?
> >
> > under what license is mlib actually? i didnt find any source and my
> > attempt to download it ended at a "data mining" registration form
> > from sun
> 
> It doesn't matter what license mlib itself comes under.  If the user
> has lawfully obtained a copy, he is free to link FFmpeg against it,
> just like libc or any other library.

legally, yes i agree with you but that wasnt what i meant.

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