[Ffmpeg-devel] Update licenses in swscale headers

Michael Niedermayer michaelni
Thu Nov 16 16:00:29 CET 2006


Hi

On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 02:31:29PM +0100, Luca Abeni wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> since I received the agreement of all the libswscale authors, excepted
> the yuv2rgb* ones, I think we can officialy state that the non-SIMD code
> of rgb2rgb* and swscale* is LGPLed.
> 
> Michael already wrote "the C code (not assembly, mmx, ...) of the
> swscaler which has been written by Michael Niedermayer can be used under
> the LGPL license too" in some files. I propose to change it in "the C
> code (not assembly, mmx, ...) of this file can be used under the LGPL
> license too" for .c files (except yuv2rgb*.c) and "This file can be used
> under the LGPL license too" for .h files (since, unless I am mistaken,
> they do not contain any asm or MMX).
> The proposed patch is attached to this email. I hope I did not overlook
> anything...

looks ok, except that files which are completely under LGPL should simply
have their header replaced by the LGPL one 

also spliting the SIMD code out into their own files would be welcome 
(idependant of the license thing)

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