[MPlayer-dev-eng] mmx.h license issues

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 03:12:18PM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> Folks, over at Debian bug #396646 [1] somebody noticed that the file
> trunk/mmx.h comes with a license statement that does not really permit
> redistribution:
> 
>   THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY
>   EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT
>   LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY
>   AND FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
> 
> This file is only needed by libmpcodecs/native/RTjpeg.c, so I think it
> should not be in the root directory to begin with.  The file contains
> some real code, not just definitions, meaning that it should really be
> copyrightable to begin with.
> 
> We need to do something about this, but there are several options:
> 
> 1) Copy libavcodec/i386/mmx.h to libmpcodecs/native, it works.
> 2) Put a smaller version of libavcodec/i386/mmx.h with just the
>    necessary definitions in libmpcodecs/native.
> 3) Make RTjpeg.c include libavcodec/i386/mmx.h.
> 4) Finish porting to FFmpeg and remove RTjpeg.c.
> 
> Solution 3) would add a dependency on libavcodec to MPlayer, but this
> should not be a big problem.  The ideal solution is 4), but 1) and 2)
> are also workable.

I think I'll just put the attached header file in libmpcodecs/native.
It's small and should thus be the simplest solution.

Diego
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