[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] CrystalHD decoder support v2

[Vladimir Pantelic]

Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 09:37:49PM -0800, Philip Langdale wrote:
>>  On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 11:48:36 +0100
>>  Diego Biurrun<diego at biurrun.de>  wrote:
>>
>>  >  On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 10:05:57PM -0700, Philip Langdale wrote:
>>  >  >
>>  >  >  + * extract_sps_pps_from_avcc: from gstbcmdec
>>  >  >  + * - Copyright(c) 2008 Broadcom Corporation.
>>  >  >  + * - Licenced LGPL 2.1
>>  >
>>  >  What was the exact license of the code you took?  "LGPL 2.1" or
>>  >  "LGPL 2.1 or later"?
>>
>>  It is in fact "LGPL 2.1" only (which I guess is not surprising,
>>  given that Broadcom is more paranoid than average). Which of course
>>  means that if I use it, I can't licence the overall file as
>>  2.1 or later.
>
> It might be worth trying to find a contact at Broadcom and ask them to
> relicense.  LGPL 2.1 can be relicensed at any time to GPL 2 or later
> (see ?3), so this restriction is a bit silly.

AFAIK Jean-Baptiste is/was talking to them already, maybe he can ask?