[MPlayer-dev-eng] non-free and undistributable files in tremor/

[Rich Felker]

On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 11:49:50AM +0200, Jindrich Makovicka wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 02:51:50 +0200
> Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> 
> > Bad news everyone!
> [...]
> > *
> >    * THE OggVorbis 'TREMOR' SOURCE CODE IS (C) COPYRIGHT 1994-2002
> > *
> >    * BY THE Xiph.Org FOUNDATION http://www.xiph.org/
> > *
> >    * ALL REDISTRIBUTION RIGHTS RESERVED.
> > *
> >    *
> > * ********************************************************************
> > 
> > In other words, we have been distributing non-free and undistributable
> > files since 2004-12-30 when Jindrich committed Tremor to CVS.
> 
> Holy cow. I just didn't expect such legal mines in a 1.0 release of a
> codec which is proclaimed to be free (I know this is not an excuse).

yes, utter nonsense... just wonderful, exactly what you'd expect from
the brilliant people at xiph.org! :)

thankfully the diff to fix this should essentially be a diff to remove
those comments and replace them with the correct license info.

> Ok, so we should immediately replace this stuff with the trunk to be on
> the safe side - as Uoti and Roberto already pointed out, the diff will
> contain mostly only these offending headers, and do the comparison with
> lavc right afterwards.

don't think about removing tremor until lavc has an integer-only
decoder. :) presently tremor with 'low precision' (i.e. nonsense
audiophile pedantry disabled) is roughly twice as fast as lavc, if
memory serves.

rich