[Ffmpeg-devel] Re: [PATCH] fix ffmpeg is killed for some img convert

[Diego Biurrun]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 05:41:32PM +0200, Michel Bardiaux wrote:
> Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> >
> >On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 02:39:12PM +0200, Michel Bardiaux wrote:
> >>Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> >>>
> >>>well, the old imgconvert/resample code is deprecated and unmaintained
> >>img_convert is needed if you want LGPL. So you cant declare it 
> >>deprecated and unmaintained. 
> >
> >last time i checked you where not my employer so you cant decide what i 
> >maintain and what i do not maintain also i dont care about LGPL, 
> 
> Your choice, but do you realize the trouble such statements cause to 
> people who use ffmpeg in non-GPL projects? When my boss worries about 
> the risk associated with using ffmpeg instead of proprietary codecs, I 
> cant honestly tell him that there is no risk, because there *are*.

There is no guarantee that it will remain LGPL for all eternity and that
you will continue to be able to use for free without trouble.  But you
will always be able to fork from the last LGPL snapshot and continue
using it as LGPL for as long as you wish.

If you (and/or your employer) care about LGPL so much, why don't you
implement the missing pieces in swscale yourself or sponsor somebody to
do it?  Is that more expensive than using proprietary codecs?

> >thouse who do can maintain the code
> >or work on getting swscale under LGPL, 
> 
> I'm interested, but I would rather not read the whole code, so as to be 
> able to claim in good faith a 'white room' completion of the LGPL 
> implementation. What is needed for that is a set of specs for the 
> functions that remain to write. But there does not seem to be an 
> official maintainer for the swscale API in lavc.

AFAICT Michael is the maintainer of that.

Diego