[Ffmpeg-devel] [RFC] X11 device demuxer

[François Revol]

> On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 08:43:23PM +0000, Edouard Gomez wrote:
> > Adds X11 frame demuxer capabilities.
> > 
> > --- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
> > +++ b/libavformat/x11grab.c	Tue Nov 14 21:38:29 2006 +0100
> > @@ -0,0 +1,527 @@
> > +/*
> > + * X11 video grab interface
> > + * Copyright (C) 2006 Clemens Fruhwirth
> > + *
> > + * A quick note on licensing. This file is a mixture of LGPL code
> > + * (ffmpeg) and GPL code (xvidcap). The result is a file that must
> > + * abid both licenses. As they are compatible and GPL is more
> > + * strict, this code has an "effective" GPL license.
> 
> No, the result is that the file must be placed under the 
> intersection,
> not the union of both licenses, i.e. the GPL, not the LGPL.
> 

Couldn't you just rewrite it ?
I've nothing against GPL as ideas, but as a licence it's really 
problematic in border cases (like using it with MIT-licenced-but-still-
as-Free-as-GNU software), I find it preferable to avoid mixing licences 
when possible.

Fran?ois.