[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: Re: Re: MPlayer + MatrixView

[Diego Biurrun]

On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 07:42:43AM +0200, Gianluigi Tiesi wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 09:30:12AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 01:24:53AM +0200, Gianluigi Tiesi wrote:
> > > On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 10:17:56AM +1000, Pigeon wrote:
> > > > > 403 FORBIDDEN
> > > > 
> > > >     Doh, fixed, my mistake, sorry... damn rsync -a :)
> > > > 
> > > > Pigeon.
> > > > 
> > > http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer/patches/99_matrixview.diff.gz
> > 
> > BTW, I'll note here that I'd prefer not to have matrixview.c marked as
> > GPL v2 only.
> I made only some small changes, not touched the license,
> you should ask Pigeon for that,

OK, if it's not your code you cannot relicense it.  You can ask the
author, though.

> anyway most code in mplayer is gpl v2 only, what is the problem?

At some point in the future we may consider GPLv3.  I'd like to have the
option of doing this.

> I known that ffmpeg has --enable-gpl switch, but never heard about
> using more permissive licenses in mplayer code.

You mean more permissive than GPL?  Then you've clearly never looked
at it.

Diego