[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] activate ac3 decoder

Rich Felker dalias
Wed Feb 20 17:51:47 CET 2008


On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 09:24:56AM +0000, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 09:32:50AM +0200, Siarhei Siamashka wrote:
> >> And if DJBFFT is really public domain now, can it be relicensed to LGPL?
> >
> > Yes.
> 
> IMHO, relicensing code is rude.  Incorporating PD code in a larger
> work is of course fine, but the relevant parts should be marked as PD,
> even if there is no legal obligation to do so.

If the code is significantly modified to fit in the ffmpeg framework
and improved with simd optimizations, I see no reason these
improvements should not be LGPL-only.

Rich




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