[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] indeo3: add @file and a link to multimedia wiki documentation

Stefano Sabatini stefano.sabatini-lala at poste.it
Wed May 18 10:37:35 CEST 2011


On date Wednesday 2011-05-18 07:50:37 +0200, Reimar Döffinger encoded:
> On 17 May 2011, at 22:30, Stefano Sabatini <stefano.sabatini-lala at poste.it> wrote:
> 
> > ---
> > libavcodec/indeo3.c |   12 ++++++++++--
> > 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/libavcodec/indeo3.c b/libavcodec/indeo3.c
> > index 588a5b4..c7ca61d 100644
> > --- a/libavcodec/indeo3.c
> > +++ b/libavcodec/indeo3.c
> > @@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
> > /*
> > - * Intel Indeo 3 (IV31, IV32, etc.) video decoder for ffmpeg
> > - * written, produced, and directed by Alan Smithee
> > + * Copyright (c) 2003 Alan Smithee
> 
> I have some doubts that a copyright statement with a fictional person has much meaning.

The only information I could find about Alan Smithee is here:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel/2921/

I suppose it may be real or may be a pseudonym, anyway I removed the
name from the copyright and will leave the funny reference to him in
the doxy, feel free to complain on cvs-log.
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