[MPlayer-dev-eng] libass relicensing

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 12:10:16PM +0300, Ivan Kalvachev wrote:
> On 9/8/10, Grigori Goronzy <greg at chown.ath.cx> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > As maintainers of libass, Evgeniy and me decided to relicense libass to
> > a permissive license, mostly to make it more useful for other projects.
> > (for example ffmpeg)
> > See the attached license template, which is a simplifed 2-clause BSD
> > license (the ISC license). I'm going to use this license.
> >
> > As libass lived inside MPlayer for a long time, there are a quite a few
> > commits from other MPlayer devs in libass. Therefore, I'm kindly asking
> > you to grant me permission to publish your code under the new license.
> >
> > The list is as follows (number of commits in brackets)
> >
> > Notable changes:
> >
> > uau - Uoti Urpala <uau wapit.com> (4)
> > reimar - Reimar.Doeffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger gmx.de> (11)
> > aurel - Aurelien Jacobs <aurel gnuage.org> (3)
> > iive - Ivan Kalvatchev <iive yahoo.com> (3)
> > ben - Benjamin Zores <ben geexbox.org> (1)
> >
> > Trivial commits (cosmetics, oneliners, etc.), not sure if they're
> > copyrightable:
> >
> > diego - Diego Biurrun <diego biurrun.de> (29)
> > kraymer - Sebastian Krämer <mail kraymer.de> (1)
> > ulion <ulion2002 gmail.com> (2)
> > rfelker - Rich Felker <dalias aerifal.cx> (2)
> >
> > Please reply (especially if you're in the first list), no matter if
> > you're OK with relicensing or not. Thanks!
> >
> > Best Regards
> > Grigori
> 
> I do not like BSD style licenses. I prefer something that would
> guarantee the source will remain open.
> Anyway, I do not consider my contribution to be a major one, so I have
> no moral right to interfere.
> 
> You have my permission to use my existing code in libass under any
> free software license that is OSI approved and (L)GPL compatible.

Since I 100% agree with all of the above, I'll just say exactly
the same applies to any code that might be from me.
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