[MPlayer-dev-eng] RFC on libspe2 detection

[Diego Biurrun]

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 09:12:15AM +0200, Rasmus Rohde wrote:
> > > The files are now without licenses at all, which I think should be ok.
> > Not really, just take the mplayer license as template (even better
> > ffmpeg lgpl if you allow us to move some of the code into ffmpeg
> > swscale), a file without license has full copyright to the original
> > author to my knowledge...
> Argh - I hate licenses :)

It's the sensible default.  If you don't give explicit permission to
redistribute and reuse then it's assumed not to exist.  Think about it,
how would you feel if your code showed up in a proprietary product of
company X tomorrow without any compensation or even credit?

> Feel free to change the license to whatever ffmpeg uses. ffmpeg lgpl is
> fine with me.

This is not really something we should be doing for you.  Just put in
the correct license header or at least a statement to that effect.

Diego