[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Split libavformat

[Diego Biurrun]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 12:51:34PM +0100, Luca Abeni wrote:
> 
> Diego Biurrun wrote:
> [...]
> >>>> --- /dev/null	1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
> >>>> +++ ffmpeg/libavdevice/allformats.c	2007-11-19 19:57:22.062554088 +0100
> >>>> @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
> >>>> +/*
> >>>> + * Register all the grabbing formats 
> >>>> + * Copyright (c) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2007 Fabrice Bellard
> >>> Fabrice did not write this.
> >> Same as above: I copied from libavformat/allformats.c. I can add other
> >> people's copyright if needed. Just let me know names and years.
> >>
> >>
> >>>> --- /dev/null	1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
> >>>> +++ ffmpeg/libavdevice/avdevice.h	2007-11-19 19:57:22.063553936 +0100
> >>>> @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
> >>>> +/*
> >>>> + * copyright (c) 2001, 2007 Fabrice Bellard
> >>> ditto
> >> I suspect I wrote it :). But I do not believe this file is copyrightable
> >> at all... I just copied the header from libavformat (I would have no
> >> problems assigning the copyright to Fabrice). Anyway, would it be ok to
> >> just remove the copyright line? (I do not know if it would be legal, but
> >> I am not a lawyer).
> > 
> > I think you can probably leave it out of this file entirely.
> 
> Just double-checking, to be 100% sure: what about allformats.c? That's a
> real C file, so maybe it needs a copyright... Or should we consider it
> trivial enough (and avoid putting a copyright on it too)?

The new or the old one?  Check the history to see who actually wrote the
code, then you can deduce the copyright information from there.

Diego