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? Thanks for your time, and the free software. karl@freefriends.org
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. Rich
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
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
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
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Rich Felker