[MPlayer-DOCS] info.html: GPLv2 or later?

[Diego Biurrun]

On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 02:52:59AM -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 07:02:42PM -0600, Karl Berry wrote:
> > Greetings -- my apologies if this is the wrong list.  (It isn't a usage
> > or compilation question, at least.)  It's about the web page
> > http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/info.html, and its statement
> > 
> >     MPlayer is available under the GNU General Public License version 2.
> > 
> > However, the documentation page
> > http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/index.html
> > says that any later version of the GPL is also allowed:
> > 
> >     MPlayer is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
> >     under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
> >     the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
> >     (at your option) any later version.
> > 
> > I did not check every one of the 1100+ source files, but I did check a
> > bunch of them, and they also said GPLv2 or later, not GPLv2-only
> > (happily, from my perspective).
> > 
> > So, assuming it really is GPLv2 or later, could info.html be updated to
> > match?
> 
> I suspect there is at least one piece of v2-only code somewhere in
> MPlayer, but this is an issue that really requires some research to
> resolve. If you'd like to dig thru all the files and publish your
> results, I'm sure it would be helpful to someone or other.

It would be most helpful, yes.

Off the top of my head I remember that libaf/af_lavcresample.c and
libaf/af_sweep.c have the following at the top of the file:

// #inlcude <GPL_v2.h>

This is suboptimal of course.  We'll have to convince Michael to replace
that with a proper license header.

Diego