[Ffmpeg-devel] overall license review - adding proper license headers

Rich Felker dalias
Mon Sep 4 15:20:23 CEST 2006


On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 01:01:15AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > >> I'll send a mail to Fabrice in order to doublecheck, but if you have a
> > >> look at the file and another at the file in its initial revision you
> > >> will see that it's just a bunch of tables and constants.  We're
> > >> operating under the assumption that these are not copyrightable anyway.
> > >
> > > License changed to LGPL as told by Fabrice.
> > 
> > But it's still just tables of numbers...  Not that I really care a
> > great deal.
> 
> We have some tables of numbers with an LGPL license on it, some without.
> We should be consistent, yes.  Until then...

I'm strongly in favor of removing license/copyright bs from all of
them, otherwise it just strengthens the misconception that files like
this can be copyrighted.

Rich





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