[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] G722 decoder

Baptiste Coudurier baptiste.coudurier
Fri Mar 27 02:53:20 CET 2009


Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 04:39:15PM -0700, Baptiste Coudurier wrote:
>> Diego Biurrun wrote:
>>> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:00:19PM -0700, Baptiste Coudurier 
>>> wrote: You are changing the topic.  There are two issues being 
>>> discussed here:
>>> 
>>> 1) Whether or not FFmpeg should accept LGPL v2.1 only 
>>> contributions. 2) That FFmpeg's license is in fact LGPL v2.1+ / 
>>> GPL v2+ right now as I just clarified in the LICENSE file.
>> Well, about 2) I already expressed concerns about 2 files in the 
>> FFmpeg codebase namely vc1dsp_mmx.c and fdctref.c, which are not 
>> _explictely_ part of FFmpeg, since it is not mentioned in their 
>> header, and are not under LGPL v2.1+ explictely since it is not 
>> mentioned in their header either.
>> 
>> I still don't know if we need to _explicitely_ relicense them to 
>> LGPL v2.1+, if we want to _distribute_ FFmpeg as a "whole" as LGPL 
>> v2.1+.
>> 
>> The fact that we are _allowed_ doesn't tell if we _need_ to or not.
>> 
>> 
> 
> I have already replied to this before.  I'm a glutton for punishment,
>  once more:
> 
> libavcodec/fdctref.c is only used in a small test program.  It's 
> nonfree anyway, but will hopefully be replaced soon.

Hummm,

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Quoting you in 2006 in:
"[Ffmpeg-devel] overall license review - adding proper license headers
Diego Biurrun diego at biurrun.de
Sun Sep 3 16:18:30 CEST 2006

> its only a tiny part of the reference code and its only used for 
> testing and comparing our (i)dcts against it furthermore it is as
> said not part of compiled ffmpeg libavcodec or libavformat IMO thats
> fair use, but iam not against it if someone wants to rewrite it, its
> very little work, just a schoolbook (i)dct

I disagree, there is no way around the "all rights reserved".  We cannot
distribute it in tarballs.

Any volunteers to rewrite it?  Is dct-test still useful?"
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However, we distributed it within FFmpeg 0.5 tarball.
Did you change your mind ?

> libavcodec/x86/vc1dsp_mmx.c is MIT-licensed.  It is not the only file
>  under such licensing terms.  Such permissively-licensed files are 
> compatible with all present and future versions of the (L)GPL.  There
>  is no need to relicense them.
> 
> In combination, the union of all terms apply.  Since the requirements
>  in the (L)GPL are a superset of those in MIT, the (L)GPL terms
> apply.

Ok, shouldn't we clarify that these files are licensed under MIT ?

Like I already suggested it would be nice to reference these files,
under a different license, somewhere in svn.

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