[MPlayer-dev-eng] [RFC] Makefile copyrights

[Ivan Kalvachev]

On 5/28/08, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> I'd like to commit the attached patch and mark the Makefile as
> copyrighted by me.  Not a single (non-empty) line written by Arpi
> or LGB remains in it, nor does any of the original structure.
>
> Nonetheless I can see a world of hurt coming down the pipe if I commit
> this directly, thus the RFC.

I think we had precedent like this.
I'm not sure if it was here or FFmpeg
(or maybe some other project) ...

The polite procedure is to ask people
who hold the copyright to confirm there is no their code left
and they don't have any claims.

It would have been much simpler if you had created this file from ground zero.