[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] the future of libamr

[Diego Biurrun]

You need to get a new mailer.  Your exchange is messing up formatting so
badly that words fail to describe it...

On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 01:40:58PM -0400, Pavel Pavlov wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > OpenCORE is released under the Apache 2.0 license and is thus 
> > free software.  I have seen no reason to question the 
> > validity of the OpenCORE license.
> > 
> > If you have such reasons, you need to provide us with facts.
> 
> It can't be released anywhere close to apache license unless they tried 
> to make their code look exactly as the ref impl (to make
> it bitexact :) or they got permission to modify reference impl code
> anyway they like *and* release it under any licence.
> 
> So, it means that they somehow found/contacted copyright holder of the
> reference implementation and got permission to mess with and distribute
> their code.

Exactly.

As I said, there is no reason to question the validity of the OpenCORE
license.

> If it was anyhow possible to find/contact copyright holder on the 
> ref impl code for the code that libamr uses probably they would also
> alow to use it in any way.

Go right ahead and contact them then...

Diego