[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC/PATCH 1/8] tidsp: add skeleton

[Felipe Contreras]

On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Martin Storsj? <martin at martin.st> wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Sep 2010, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>
>> +/*
>> + * MPEG-4 / H.263 HW decode acceleration through TI DSP
>> + *
>> + * This file is part of FFmpeg.
>> + *
>> + * This file may be used under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
>> + * License version 2.1, a copy of which is found in COPYING.LGPLv2.1 included
>> + * in the packaging of this file.
>> + */
>
> Please use a license header similar to the ones in the other files.

Ok, although I think such big text is overkill.

> Also,
> is it possible to license the code (mainly the reused parts) as LGPL2.1+,
> that is, including the "any later version" clause? The rest of the ffmpeg
> LGPL codebase uses this version. If you aren't able to license it that
> way, some configure magic to disable this code if compiling for LGPL3
> would be needed, as far as I know.

I'm not sure what you mean by "reused parts", if I understand
correctly, you mean the 'tidsp' directory, which code is similar to
gst-dsp's. If so, no, I don't think we can change that to LGPLv2.1+,
or at least not that easily (and I wouldn't want to). However, as Mans
suggested, that code wouldn't be able to fit FFmpeg without changing
the code-style, which I'm not willing to do, so that code would have
to be a separate library, like libtidsp-ng.

For the rest of the code that is truly specific to FFmpeg, and would
be a client of the libtidsp-ng library, I don't have any problems
changing to LGPLv2.1+.

-- 
Felipe Contreras