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

Ivo ivop at euronet.nl
Thu Nov 29 15:46:38 CET 2007


On Thursday 29 November 2007 13:07, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> 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:
> > > 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.

I remembered some of the code I contributed was strictly v2. I just went 
over all the code I maintain and added proper license headers, copyright 
notices and also relicensed my code under v2+. I do not really care about 
strict v2 anymore, as long as the code stays free as in speech.

--Ivo



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