[MPlayer-dev-eng] [RFC] upgrade license on LGPL 2 files

[Robert Swain]

2008/9/11 Aurelien Jacobs <aurel at gnuage.org>:
> Robert Swain wrote:
>
>> 2008/9/11 Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de>:
>> > On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 07:41:11AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
>> >> The following files are licensed as LGPL 2 or later, not LGPL 2.1 or
>> >> later:
>> >>
>> >> libvo/vo_gif89a.c
>> >> libvo/vo_directfb2.c
>> >> libvo/vo_quartz.h
>> >> libvo/vo_dfbmga.c
>> >> TOOLS/dvd2divxscript.pl
>> >> libmpdemux/demux_avs.h
>> >> libmpdemux/demux_avs.c
>> >>
>> >> I propose that we upgrade to LGPL 2.1 or later on these files in order
>> >> to reduce the number of licenses used in our code base.
>> >
>> > Since I am hearing no objections, I will do this after the weekend.
>>
>> Hmm. Have you contacted authors individually? It seems wrong to me to
>> alter the license without all authors' explicit consent.
>
> The respective authors already explicitly allowed such a change (by
> using "or later" in their original license). So it's not needed to
> contact them (still it would be more polite).
> I guess the reason Diego asked here is to ensure there isn't any
> strong disagreement about it from any developer.
> And for the record, I'm OK with this re-licensing.

Ah, yes, that's a good point.

Rob