[FFmpeg-devel] some licensing issues

[Diego Biurrun]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 01:43:04AM -0700, Michel Lespinasse wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 06:00:14PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > That's 2 out of 5 file headers.  I did not intend to change those before
> > asking Walken anyway.
> > 
> > I think the main question is how much mpeg2dec code remains in those
> > files.  I'm looking at yuv2rgb_mlib.c and AFAICT all the code was
> > rewritten by Michael.  The following 'svn annotate' is quite telling,
> > revision 2733 is the initial import, 9477 is a rewrite by Michael:
> > 
> > http://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk/libswscale/yuv2rgb_mlib.c?annotate=9477
> 
> yuv2rgb_mlib.c is a very thin wrapper accross the mlib - I'd think it falls
> under "there is only one way to do it". I clearly would not have any claims
> related to this (I don't want to talk for Hakan Hjort though, you should
> ideally ask him). I do believe the situation is different for the yuv2rgb
> C code though, as it's been done many different ways before I came up with
> one I was happy enough with.

Given that the code was almost completely rewritten by Michael, I feel
quite confident that this is not even necessary.

Diego