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

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 07:45:40PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 11:20:22PM +0300, Ivan Kalvachev wrote:
> > 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) ...
> 
> We have the same situation in FFmpeg where Mans and I rewrote all the
> Makefiles completely, dunno if you are referring to that.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> The situation is slightly different here since the Makefile is not
> marked as copyrighted.  The text it contains is more like a short
> changelog.
> 
> Thus I'm tempted to commit as-is, without prior consultation, as I don't
> think they have any say in the matter.  Being polite is not the top
> priority here, being right is.

... because we have too many developers, the risk pissing a few old ones
off is not an issues. We dont want them to come back anyway

I do not like your politics of attracting new devels and removing old
ones. It takes time, alot of time to understand some of the code in
mplayer, the project needs people who understand the code not people
who rewrite code with even more bugs because they didnt understand
the existing code.

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