[FFmpeg-devel] [VOTE] License header consistency

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 09:03:55PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
[...]
> > Besides its neither a issue of legal correctness if a LGPL variant is
> > used that happens to have a space more or less somewhere, or uses
> > "this library" instead of "ffmpeg" or was what diego prefered 4 years ago.
> 
> The header you just picked from somewhere reads
> 
>   * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
>   * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
>   * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
>   * version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
> 
> There is no version of this license under that name.  

And this is a argument i agree with, a non existing license version is bad
and should be replaced but i was not aware of this and i think iam not
the only one. How should i guess from a "sigh" that the license header
refers to a non existing license instead of just minor typogrphic
things you dislike ?


> We have discussed
> this multiple times already.  You choose to ignore the argument again
> and again.

I repeatly ignored "sigh" and failed to guess what you meant?

[...]

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