[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Enhanced Video Renderer (EVR)

[Diego Biurrun]

On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 08:50:21AM +0200, Georgi Petrov wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Georgi Petrov <gogothebee at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 9:25 PM, Reimar Döffinger
> > <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> wrote:
> >> On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 08:54:08PM +0200, Georgi Petrov wrote:
> >>> /**
> >>>  * This file has no copyright assigned and is placed in the Public Domain.
> >>>  * This file is part of the w64 mingw-runtime package.
> >>>  * No warranty is given; refer to the file DISCLAIMER.PD within this package.
> >>>  */
> >>
> >> Uh, this definitely is not a ZPL license, it says public domain.
> >> I can't say I like it because public domain basically only has a legal meaning
> >> in the US, but I can't see any reason why this couldn't be included into
> >> MinGW (32 bit) if this is correct.
> >> And please be careful when say "ZPL", version 1.0 is no GPL-compatible,
> >> 2.x are (according to http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html).
> >
> > Okay, I see. I will work this out with mingw/mingw-w64 guys and write back.
> 
> Mingw-w64's core is ZPL, but its header files are public domain. This
> means that evr.h or any other files I work on will remain public
> domain. The core of mingw-w64 (as I understand it) is ZPL exactly
> because public domain has no meaning outside US.
> 
> This also means that mingw shouldn't have anything against it, but
> they haven't answered yet. Anyway - evr.h and vo_evr.c are going to
> change on a daily/weekly basis in the next months, so what do you
> suggest? Even if mingw decide to include it (I think they would), are
> you against temporary inclusion of evr.h in MPlayer until it get's
> better enough? I need to know it order to prepare the first patch.

As Reimar said, public domain is not ideal because it is US-specific.
What about using the ISC license?

Diego