[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 03/10] asrc_anullsrc: fix copyright

Michael Niedermayer michaelni at gmx.at
Thu May 24 05:22:13 CEST 2012


On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 12:13:21AM +0200, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> On date Tuesday 2012-05-22 21:57:41 +0200, Michael Niedermayer encoded:
> > git blame says:
> >     109 Stefano Sabatini
> >       7 Clément Bœsch
> >       2 Reimar Döffinger
> >       2 Michael Niedermayer
> >       1 Reinhard Tartler
> >       1 Mans Rullgard
> > 
> > Initial commit:
> > commit 1ee410f330d3b57b0ea1ccb915977f2ba4d99815
> > Author: Stefano Sabatini <stefano.sabatini-lala at poste.it>
> > Date:   Sat Sep 25 01:56:58 2010 +0000
> > 
> >     Add asrc_anullsrc - null audio source.
> > 
> >     Based on a patch by "S.N. Hemanth Meenakshisundaram" smeenaks!ucsd!edu.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at>
> > ---
> >  libavfilter/asrc_anullsrc.c |    3 +++
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/libavfilter/asrc_anullsrc.c b/libavfilter/asrc_anullsrc.c
> > index c396d7b..61fdc32 100644
> > --- a/libavfilter/asrc_anullsrc.c
> > +++ b/libavfilter/asrc_anullsrc.c
> > @@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
> >  /*
> > + * Copyright 2010 S.N. Hemanth Meenakshisundaram <smeenaks ucsd edu>
> > + * Copyright 2010 Stefano Sabatini <stefano.sabatini-lala poste it>
> 
> Same as below, feel free to drop both names or leave Hemanth as
> author. I don't want to end with a collection of names, which is
> usually complicating from the legal POV (e.g. in case of relicense).
> 
> From the practical point of view, it makes no difference (since I
> don't think someone will relicense it from LGPL -> ?), from the
> philosophical point of view authorship and copyright are somehow
> controversial in a free software project (but the Lockean theory of
> land property still suits free software customs well [1]), also
> authorship != copyright so it doesn't necessarily depend on the number
> of lines of code but is more related to the original idea/design (but
> again, there is no way to get a mathematical distinction between the
> two).

This reminded me why i hate posting patches instead of directly
commiting

Fixing author attribution, one asks for help to get the attribution
right, to comply to LGPL and all that and what one gets is a
link to a philosophical text. with a bunch of vague "feel free not
to attribute me" mails :)

Iam certain the result that i pushed contains mistakes
Please dont hesitate to push fixes for them or adjust things
where i missed something. I just wanted to fix this issue ASAP and
not leave some author attribution out while its being discussed for
ages. So yes flame me on gitlog ...


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