[FFmpeg-devel] [VOTE] License header consistency
Diego Biurrun
diego
Sat Sep 6 20:56:37 CEST 2008
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 12:39:22PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
>
> And trust me, when you end up looking at every single file of a project
> to review the licensing situation (like I have done for FFmpeg and
> MPlayer), consistently formatted license boilerplates save you a lot
> of time.
Consistent license boilerplates have another advantage: They are very
suitable for scripted checking. I just ran 'licensecheck' from Debian
over FFmpeg and MPlayer and discovered that libavcodec/qtrleenc.c is
LGPL 2.1 without "or later" clause. Yes, I already contacted the
authors for relicensing.
Diego
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