[MPlayer-dev-eng] GPL ?

D Richard Felker III dalias at aerifal.cx
Fri Apr 19 17:18:08 CEST 2002


On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 11:10:42AM +0200, Arpi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Afaik mplayer is now 100% GPL/LGPL. right?

I'm not sure. Take a look at divx4_vbr.c:

/**********************************************************
 *                Two-pass-code from OpenDivX             *
 *                                                        *
 *  Large parts of this code were taken from VbrControl() *
 *  from the OpenDivX project, (C) divxnetworks,          *
 *  this code is published under DivX Open license, which *
 *  can be found... somewhere... oh, whatever...          *
 **********************************************************/

IMO someone should at least clean this up and replace the remaining
OpenDivX code in there, or else rewrite it entirely (might be a good
idea since it doesn't seem to match bitrate very precisely). It might
be good to rename it too at the same time, since it really has nothing
specific to divx in it afaik...

Rich





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