[FFmpeg-devel] Cleanup libswscale and reimplement GPL code under LGPL

[Diego Biurrun]

On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 09:23:09PM +0200, Fran?ois Revol wrote:
> > Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > > 
> > > IMO rewriting the SIMD code because of GPL makes no sense, why
> > > would you want to do that? The code can be used without SIMD, is
> > > it so bad that non free software will be a little slower?
> 
> Please stop assuming non-GPL == non-Free.
> There are many software out there that are non GPL and Free (including 
> FreeBSD and other clones).

You completely misunderstand the point.

Diego