[MPlayer-dev-eng] mp3lib license; backport to mpg123

[Zuxy Meng]

Hi,

2006/6/26, Thomas Orgis <thomas-forum at orgis.org>:
> Hi!
>
> I'm working on a new release of mpg123 (yes, afer a looong time) and noted some interesting stuff in MPlayer's  mp3lib directory.

Glad to hear that!

> You have 3DNow!Ext, altivec assembler and SSE pending (I was notified of Zuxy's posting of such a patch here).
>
> I'd like to include your impovements.
>
> I understand that MPlayer is GPL as a whole - I want to make mpg123 as much LGPL as possible, since I want to serve mpglib and mpg123 from the same source in future (mpglib is used in many LGPL ways).
>
> I'd like to have some voice stating clearly that the files you added are indeed GPL and I'd be overly happy if the authors could make them LGPL for me.
> Btw., the same holds true for some files you took from mpg123 (3DNow, MMX) since I was unable to track down the original authors.
> I someone here has some contacts that are still alive...
>
> Zuxy: You are hopefully more easy to track down - Can I use your SSE patch under LGPL?
>

Yes you can. However dct64_sse is a derivative work of dct64_MMX
(already LGPLed?) and dct64_altivec so you might have to get
permission from Romain Dolbeau first.:-)

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