[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Reinstate proper FFmpeg license for all files.

[Paul B Mahol]

On 8/16/13, Thilo Borgmann <thilo.borgmann at mail.de> wrote:
> Am 16.08.13 01:45, schrieb Timothy Gu:
>> On Thursday, August 15, 2013, Thilo Borgmann wrote:
>>
>>> The following changes since commit
>>> 60e9b8556ab33af8087968b1de15867ede7c5685:
>>>
>>>   swscale_unscaled: make dither_scale static, its not used elsewhere and
>>> has no
>>> prefix (2013-08-15 21:38:22 +0200)
>>>
>>> are available in the git repository at:
>>>
>>>   git at github.com:thiloborgmann/FFmpeg.git license
>>>
>>> for you to fetch changes up to 79795fa42a7f50eea17f7cda28b68470ee05ac24:
>>>
>>>   Reinstate proper FFmpeg license for all files. (2013-08-15 23:12:51
>>> +0200)
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>>> Thilo Borgmann (1):
>>>       Reinstate proper FFmpeg license for all files.
>>>
>>
>> I had the same question before:
>> http://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-user/2013-April/014690.html
>
> If that would be true, forking open source would be impossible.
> Any patch patch away from the point of fork would infringe the authors
> copyright
> then. But modification is explicitly allowed and the modified lines do not
> result in relicensing.
> Thus, I see no problem.
>
> And I will not discuss license-bikeshed-bulls*** any further.
> No offense! (really)
>
>
>> And I think things like lavr should not be considered "a part of FFmpeg",
>> especially in license headers.
>
> True or false: We have it (lavr) in our repository?

Still perhaps you should ask for lavr maintainer
in FFmpeg repository for approval.

>
> -Thilo
>
>
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