[MPlayer-dev-eng] libass relicensing

[Diego Biurrun]

On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 10:05:27PM +0200, Grigori Goronzy wrote:
> 
> As maintainers of libass, Evgeniy and me decided to relicense libass to
> a permissive license, mostly to make it more useful for other projects.
> (for example ffmpeg)
> See the attached license template, which is a simplifed 2-clause BSD
> license (the ISC license). I'm going to use this license.

I wonder why you did not go with LGPL?  That would make it equally useful
for FFmpeg.  Any other projects in particular you have in mind?

> As libass lived inside MPlayer for a long time, there are a quite a few
> commits from other MPlayer devs in libass. Therefore, I'm kindly asking
> you to grant me permission to publish your code under the new license.
> 
> The list is as follows (number of commits in brackets)
> 
> Trivial commits (cosmetics, oneliners, etc.), not sure if they're
> copyrightable:
> 
> diego - Diego Biurrun <diego biurrun.de> (29)

You have my blessing.

Diego