[MPlayer-dev-eng] RFC on libspe2 detection

[Diego Biurrun]

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 12:01:09AM +0200, Rasmus Rohde wrote:
> > > However if anybody should be interested the patch can be found here:
> > > http://www.duff.dk/ps3/vo_fbdevps3-patch-1
> > You should clean up the licensing.
> > The stuff in the spe subdir claims to be BSD-licensed.  There is no
> > such thing as "the" BSD license.  There are several variants, some of
> > which are problematic, i.e. GPL-incompatible.
> I did not write the yuv2rgb and therefore I am not able to change the
> license on that one.

You could ask the author(s) to clarify/change it.

> However I decided instead to write my own, which solves that problem.
> 
> I've cooked together a new patch if anybody should be interested
> http://www.duff.dk/ps3/vo_fbdevps3-patch-2
> 
> The files are now without licenses at all, which I think should be ok.

No, it's not OK, on the contrary.  Code should have a clear license
statement.  A missing license statement is not clear at all.

Diego