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

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 02:27:06AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 06:46:58PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 02:45:27AM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > > On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 11:28:49PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 11:44:26AM +0000, Ramiro Polla wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > I've looked at the license headers and a few svn annotates from GPL
> > > > > files. What parts of the code is left in GPL?
> > > > 
> > > > cs_test.c
> > > > swscale_example.c
> > > > 
> > > > Michael, would you relicense these test programs of yours?  Nobody else
> > > > seems to have made copyrightable changes to these files.
> > > 
> > > What would be the point? These arent linked or used by libav*,
> > 
> > It would reduce license confusion in the libswscale subdirectory.  Plus,
> > the example code is supposedly something that people should be able to
> > copy and paste freely into their code.  libavcodec/apiexample.c is LGPL,
> > output_example.c has an X11-style permissive license.  I thought that
> > this was the purpose of these files as well.  They look rather trivial
> > in any case.
> 
> Michael, do you give your permission?

sigh ... yes you can change the 2 files to LGPL

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