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

[Diego Biurrun]

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).

Well, as we have all learned right now, expectations are not good
enough.  It's a sad fact that you obviously didn't look over the files
you committed, nor did anybody else.  As I said before, it's a huge
embarassment for all of us...

> 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.

This has been done, so our Subversion tree is safe.

I believe we may still have a problem, though.  Our past releases
contain undistributable files, yet we keep distributing them...

Diego