[FFmpeg-soc] [soc]: r2023 - in dcaenc: . checkout.sh dcaenc.c dcaenc.h ffmpeg.patch readme

[Diego Biurrun]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 03:12:46PM +0100, Benjamin Larsson wrote:
> Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 02:40:50PM +0100, banan wrote:
> >> --- (empty file)
> >> +++ dcaenc/dcaenc.c	Thu Mar 20 14:40:49 2008
> >> @@ -0,0 +1,379 @@
> >> +/*
> >> + * DCA encoder
> >> + * Copyright (C) 2008 Alexander E. Patrakov
> >> + *
> >> + * This file is part of FFmpeg.
> >> + *
> >> + * When this file is part of FFmpeg it can be licensed under the LGPL 2.1
> >> + * currently it is a wip
> > 
> > Houston, we have a problem here.  First off, the first and the second
> > sentence are a contradiction.  Second, FFmpeg is (mostly) licensed as
> > LGPL 2.1+, so this code would cause license incompatibilities...
> > 
> > So can we have this as standard LGPL 2.1+ please?
> 
> Fixed.

That was only a partial fix.  Now the promise is for LGPL 2.1, but
FFmpeg is LGPL 2.1+ ...

Why this "when this code ever enters the magic wonderland, I shall
bestow a free license upon it" in the first place?  Get the author to
release this as LGPL 2.1+.  If somebody cleans this up and integrates it
into multimedia lib XYZ, it would be without a license grant...

Diego