[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Port x264 SSE2 deblocking code to H.264 decoder

[Diego Biurrun]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:58:12PM +0000, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> 
> Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:56:16AM +0000, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> >>
> >> Loren Merritt wrote:
> >> > On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Since basicly only Loren and yourself have worked on that code, maybe
> >> >> you'd both be willing to re-licence it in LGPL?
> >> >
> >> > I don't plan to relicense to LGPL.
> >> > How loud will people complain if I optimize x264's deblocker in a way
> >> > that's not drop-in compatible, update ffmpeg c to match, and delete the
> >> > existing LGPL mmx versions?
> >>
> >> A simple "no" would have sufficed.  Are you on a crusade against all things
> >> non-gpl or what?
> >
> > Now where did this come from?
> 
> Did you read what Loren wrote?  He pretty much threatened to deliberately
> destroy the existing lgpl optimisations.

I rather read it as replacing existing optimizations by superior (GPL) ones.

Diego