[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Split libavformat

Luca Abeni lucabe72
Tue Nov 20 12:51:34 CET 2007


Hi Diego,

Diego Biurrun wrote:
[...]
>>>> --- /dev/null	1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
>>>> +++ ffmpeg/libavdevice/allformats.c	2007-11-19 19:57:22.062554088 +0100
>>>> @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
>>>> +/*
>>>> + * Register all the grabbing formats 
>>>> + * Copyright (c) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2007 Fabrice Bellard
>>> Fabrice did not write this.
>> Same as above: I copied from libavformat/allformats.c. I can add other
>> people's copyright if needed. Just let me know names and years.
>>
>>
>>>> --- /dev/null	1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
>>>> +++ ffmpeg/libavdevice/avdevice.h	2007-11-19 19:57:22.063553936 +0100
>>>> @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
>>>> +/*
>>>> + * copyright (c) 2001, 2007 Fabrice Bellard
>>> ditto
>> I suspect I wrote it :). But I do not believe this file is copyrightable
>> at all... I just copied the header from libavformat (I would have no
>> problems assigning the copyright to Fabrice). Anyway, would it be ok to
>> just remove the copyright line? (I do not know if it would be legal, but
>> I am not a lawyer).
> 
> I think you can probably leave it out of this file entirely.

Just double-checking, to be 100% sure: what about allformats.c? That's a
real C file, so maybe it needs a copyright... Or should we consider it
trivial enough (and avoid putting a copyright on it too)?


			Thanks,
				Luca




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