[MPlayer-dev-eng] (your) MPlayer mp3lib changes to be included in a mpg123 release under LGPL

[Sascha Sommer]

Hi,

On Saturday 17 March 2007 09:19, Thomas Orgis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am the current maintainer of mpg123 and want to include improvements
> from the MPlayer project's mpg123-based mp3lib in a new mpg123 release.
> The license of mpg123 is LGPL, the license of MPlayer is GPL.
> mpg123 is LGPL to have a unified license with mpglib, which shall see a
> rewrite/update with newer mpg123 code in the future (and then
> hopefully be used by MPlayer instead of MPlayer folks having to
> maintain mp3lib themselves).
> I'd like to keep that unified LGPL license and thus ask for the
> permission to extend the license of any changes and additions to mpg123
> code I import back from MPlayer to LGPL 2.1.
>
> I've compiled a list of people who had contact with the mp3lib code
> from the svn history (be it though direct edits or sending a patch) and
> that I have not yet contacted:
>
> arpi: Gereöffy, Árpád (A'rpi/ESP-team)
> atmos4,atmosfear: Bünemann, Felix (Atmos)
> faust3: Sommer, Sascha (Faust3)
> gpoirier: Poirier, Guillaume (poirierg)
> henry: Makovička, Jindřich (henry, x0rph)
> jkeil: Keil, Jürgen
> kmkaplan: Kaplan, Kim Minh
> nexus: Horst, Bohdan (Nexus)
> nplourde: pontscho: Ponekker, Zoltán (Pontscho/fresh!mindworkz)
> rathann: Mierzejewski, Dominik (Rathann)
> reimar: Döffinger, Reimar (reimar)
> rfelker: Felker, D Richard III (dalias)
> VMiklos
> Björn Sandell
>
> This mail goes out to all of these and the mplayer-dev-eng mailing list
> to maximise reachability; in case someone whose email address has
> changed is monitoring the list, or someone else on the list has
> something to add on this matter.
>
> The code concerned is what is in the mp3lib subdir of the mplayer trunk
> plus the mangle.h header file which eases asm compiler portability.
>
> So, I ask you: Do I have your permission to include your contribution
> to MPlayer's mp3lib in mpg123 and release the result under the LGPL
> instead of GPL only?
>

Yes.

Regards

Sascha