[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Reinstate proper FFmpeg license for all files.

Michael Niedermayer michaelni at gmx.at
Fri Aug 16 13:56:28 CEST 2013


On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 10:18:09AM +0000, Paul B Mahol wrote:
> On 8/16/13, Thilo Borgmann <thilo.borgmann at mail.de> wrote:
> > Am 16.08.13 01:45, schrieb Timothy Gu:
> >> On Thursday, August 15, 2013, Thilo Borgmann wrote:
> >>
> >>> The following changes since commit
> >>> 60e9b8556ab33af8087968b1de15867ede7c5685:
> >>>
> >>>   swscale_unscaled: make dither_scale static, its not used elsewhere and
> >>> has no
> >>> prefix (2013-08-15 21:38:22 +0200)
> >>>
> >>> are available in the git repository at:
> >>>
> >>>   git at github.com:thiloborgmann/FFmpeg.git license
> >>>
> >>> for you to fetch changes up to 79795fa42a7f50eea17f7cda28b68470ee05ac24:
> >>>
> >>>   Reinstate proper FFmpeg license for all files. (2013-08-15 23:12:51
> >>> +0200)
> >>>
> >>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> >>> Thilo Borgmann (1):
> >>>       Reinstate proper FFmpeg license for all files.
> >>>
> >>
> >> I had the same question before:
> >> http://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-user/2013-April/014690.html
> >
> > If that would be true, forking open source would be impossible.
> > Any patch patch away from the point of fork would infringe the authors
> > copyright
> > then. But modification is explicitly allowed and the modified lines do not
> > result in relicensing.
> > Thus, I see no problem.
> >
> > And I will not discuss license-bikeshed-bulls*** any further.
> > No offense! (really)
> >
> >
> >> And I think things like lavr should not be considered "a part of FFmpeg",
> >> especially in license headers.
> >
> > True or false: We have it (lavr) in our repository?
> 
> Still perhaps you should ask for lavr maintainer
> in FFmpeg repository for approval.

I dont think we have a lavr maintainer

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