[Ffmpeg-devel] (L)GPLed yuv2rgb code

[Luca Abeni]

Hi Michel,

On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 01:30 -0800, Michel Lespinasse wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 04:05:27PM +0100, Luca Abeni wrote:
> > Ok; I hope I addressed all the issues. The new version of the is
> > attached; I post it again so that everyone can have a look, and someone
> > expert in legal stuff can say if this is still derived work, or it can
> > be licensed under LGPL (I think I rewrote all the parts that are not by
> > Michael, but IANAL, so...).
> > 
> > If so, I'll add the LGPL license header (with "Copyright (C) 2001-2006
> > Michael Niedermayer" and "Copyright (C) 2006 Luca Abeni").
> 
> FYI, the code you attached (quoted below) looks very much like stuff
> I wrote around 1998/1999 under a GPL licence and which can be currently\
> found on the videolan svn server at
> https://trac.videolan.org/libmpeg2/browser/trunk/mpeg2dec-livid/libvo/yuv2rgb.c?rev=70
Well, that code can be found in libswscale too, under the GPL license.
Unfortunately, your name is not mentioned in it, otherwise I would have
contacted you before starting to try to rewrite it (I tried to contact
all the people mentioned as authors in the CVS / SVN logs or in the file
headers).

I do not want to steal anyone's code, or to violate licenses, or to do
anything bad... I was just trying to rewrite a new version of the file,
to be used under the LGPL license. Since I read your code before
starting, and since the new code must do exactly the same things that
your one does (I mean: at the end, the yuv -> rgb tables must contain
the same values), they are very similar. I apologize for that.

In the mail you are replying to, I was asking if this new code can be
considered "not derived work" or not. Now I know that the origninal
author thinks that it is derived work, and this is enough for me... I'll
undo my commit, and please accept my apologies.



				Luca