[Ffmpeg-devel] Files with missing license header

Diego Biurrun diego
Tue Feb 27 17:42:34 CET 2007


On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 04:28:36PM -0000, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> 
> Diego Biurrun said:
> > On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 01:52:48PM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> >> On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 01:25:32PM +0100, Alex Beregszaszi wrote:
> >> > tests/
> >> >   audiogen.c
> >> >     added by Fabrice (glantau), no license indication
> >> >   rotozoom.c
> >> >     added by Sebastian Bechet, says GPLv2, but no license header
> >> >   videogen.c
> >> >     added by Fabrice (glantau), no license indication
> >>
> >> I'm not sure about these files.  GPLv2 (only) is not so good, we have
> >> GPLv2 or later in all other files.
> >
> > The files written by Fabrice are probably OK to be put under LGPL, he is
> > a proponent of that license himself.  I'll send a mail to Sebastien
> > Bechet to see if he is willing to relicense it as GPLv2+ or LGPL.
> 
> Why is GPLv2 only a problem?

For the simple reason that it further complicates the licensing mix we
have in FFmpeg.

Diego




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