A few weeks ago I asked about the two statements on http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/info.html and http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/index.html, the first of which says mplayer is licensed under GPLv2 and the second GPLv2 or later. There was a suggestion to more systematically check the sources. I just did this, and I found many files where the word "Copyright" does not appear -- over 700 of them. List attached. I excluded DOC/, TOOLS/, xpm files, and so on. I also found just a few files that say "GNU GPL v2" without the "or later": ./libvo/vo_zr.c:3: * Copyright (C) Rik Snel 2001,2002, License GNU GPL v2 ./libvo/vo_bl.c:13: * Other stuff: Copyright (C) Rik Snel 2002, License GNU GPL v2 ./libvo/vo_zr2.c:4: * Copyright (C) Rik Snel 2001-2005, License GNU GPL v2 ./cputable.h:3: * This file comes under the GNU GPL, see www.fsf.org for more info! (There may be more occurrences using other texts, I searched for "GNU GPL" to find these.) I hope this helps in eventually resolving the question ... Thanks, Karl
On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 08:44:39PM +0100, Karl Berry wrote: Content-Description: message body text
A few weeks ago I asked about the two statements on http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/info.html and http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/index.html, the first of which says mplayer is licensed under GPLv2 and the second GPLv2 or later.
Fixed.
There was a suggestion to more systematically check the sources. I just did this, and I found many files where the word "Copyright" does not appear -- over 700 of them. List attached. I excluded DOC/, TOOLS/, xpm files, and so on.
I also found just a few files that say "GNU GPL v2" without the "or later": ./libvo/vo_zr.c:3: * Copyright (C) Rik Snel 2001,2002, License GNU GPL v2 ./libvo/vo_bl.c:13: * Other stuff: Copyright (C) Rik Snel 2002, License GNU GPL v2 ./libvo/vo_zr2.c:4: * Copyright (C) Rik Snel 2001-2005, License GNU GPL v2
These files (and a few others) have been relicensed by their authors or with their permission.
./cputable.h:3: * This file comes under the GNU GPL, see www.fsf.org for more info!
This is not a problem, without mentioning an explicit version GPL implies later versions. Diego
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