[FFmpeg-devel] some licensing issues

[Måns Rullgård]

Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> writes:

> 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.

OK, I see what you're getting at.  Didn't someone post some benchmarks
comparing mlib with our native Sparc code some time ago?

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