[MPlayer-dev-eng] Relicensing MPlayer or parts of it to LGPL

[wm4]

On Mon, 28 Dec 2015 18:52:43 +0000 (UTC)
Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos at ag.or.at> wrote:

> wm4 <nfxjfg <at> googlemail.com> writes:
> 
> > To avoid this, I'm thinking of relicensing mpv to LGPL 2.1  
> 
> Complete unrelated to the fact that at least one of the 
> original copyright holders was strongly against such a 
> relicensing:

Who?

> Please don't, you cannot ask all authors, we even failed 
> for a single file in FFmpeg.

Things have been relicensed before.