[FFmpeg-devel] Cleanup libswscale and reimplement GPL code under LGPL

François Revol revol
Mon Apr 7 23:36:55 CEST 2008


> On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 10:19:35PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> > Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> writes:
> > 
> > > On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 09:23:09PM +0200, Fran?ois Revol wrote:
> > >> > Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > >> > > 
> > >> > > IMO rewriting the SIMD code because of GPL makes no sense, 
> > > > > > why
> > >> > > would you want to do that? The code can be used without 
> > > > > > SIMD, is
> > >> > > it so bad that non free software will be a little slower?
> > >> 
> > >> Please stop assuming non-GPL == non-Free.
> > >> There are many software out there that are non GPL and Free 
> > > > (including 
> > >> FreeBSD and other clones).
> > >
> > > You completely misunderstand the point.
> > 
> > What, exactly, is the point?
> 
> Francois seems to misunderstand what Michael is referring to.  Of 
> course
> there is free software under licenses different from the GPL.  
> However,
> only GPL-compatible software could use the SIMD code under GPL and 
> the
> combined work would become GPL.  This excludes non-free software from

I perfectly got the point actually.

> using the SIMD code, not something under LGPL or X11/MIT/ISC 
> licenses.
> 

Anyway.

Fran?ois.





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