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

Måns Rullgård mans
Mon Apr 7 23:19:35 CEST 2008


Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> writes:

> 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.

What, exactly, is the point?

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