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

[Diego Biurrun]

On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 03:46:38PM +0100, Ivo wrote:
> 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.

Thanks a lot.

Diego