[Ffmpeg-devel] [patch] idct_mmx_xvid - LGPL license

Diego Biurrun diego
Thu Oct 5 02:24:27 CEST 2006


On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 11:18:37AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 07:01:25PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 04:01:02PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > > On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 01:46:32PM +1000, pete wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > enclosed is an ammendment to the license description of idct_mmx_xvid.c
> > > > to grant usage of this file under the LGPL.
> > > 
> > > I'd say the right way to accomplish this would be to directly change the
> > > licensing header to LGPL.
> > > 
> > > Here is a patch that does that and removes CONFIG_GPL from the places
> > > where this code is called.  Unfortunately this breaks the regression
> > > tests for reasons I don't fully understand.
> > > 
> > > Any clues?
> > 
> > Scratch that, libavtest works fine and the codectest failure appears to
> > be unrelated.  So I'll commit this tommorrow.
> 
> Yeah, I know, everybody is so used to patches not getting attached that
> not even complaints are forthcoming anymore...

Committed.

Diego




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