[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 2/2] lavc: add MicroDVD decoder.

[Clément Bœsch]

On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 10:46:26PM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 07:51:01PM +0200, Clément Bœsch wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 07:38:05PM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> > > On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 09:47:22PM +0200, Clément Bœsch wrote:
> > > > Ported from MPlayer.
> > > 
> > > Looking at the code I'm quite sure there is no real issue
> > > and I know we've used that wording before, but I find
> > > "ported" a bit misleading/confusing when adding LGPL
> > > code that is "ported" from a GPL project.
> > 
> > "Ported and relicensed" then?
> 
> That's worse! "Relicense" is implies you contacted all
> the authors of the code and got permission to make it
> LGPL.
> I don't know what exactly you want to say with "ported",
> so I can hardly say explicitly what to write.
> "The MPlayer implementation was used as reference."
> possibly, but I don't know how exactly you used the
> MPlayer code.

Well, AFAIK I'm the only author of the MicroDVD code in MPlayer, so I
should be allowed to relicensed it, right?

-- 
Clément B.
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