[FFmpeg-devel] Cleanup libswscale and reimplement GPL code under LGPL

[Måns Rullgård]

Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> writes:

> On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 10:19:35PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>> Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> writes:
>> 
>> > On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 09:23:09PM +0200, Fran?ois Revol wrote:
>> >> > Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>> >> > > 
>> >> > > IMO rewriting the SIMD code because of GPL makes no sense, why
>> >> > > would you want to do that? The code can be used without SIMD, is
>> >> > > it so bad that non free software will be a little slower?
>> >> 
>> >> Please stop assuming non-GPL == non-Free.
>> >> There are many software out there that are non GPL and Free (including 
>> >> FreeBSD and other clones).
>> >
>> > You completely misunderstand the point.
>> 
>> What, exactly, is the point?
>
> Francois seems to misunderstand what Michael is referring to.  Of course
> there is free software under licenses different from the GPL.  However,
> only GPL-compatible software could use the SIMD code under GPL and the
> combined work would become GPL.  This excludes non-free software from
> using the SIMD code, not something under LGPL or X11/MIT/ISC licenses.

It does, however, exclude software also using OpenSSL, MPL, and a
variety of other copyleft but not GPL-compatible licenses.

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M?ns Rullg?rd
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