[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 2/5] fate: avoid framemd5, use framecrc its faster

Nicolas George nicolas.george at normalesup.org
Fri May 17 11:11:37 CEST 2013


L'octidi 28 floréal, an CCXXI, Reimar Döffinger a écrit :
> [ OpenSSL's license ]
> Unless something changed it is not compatible with any LGPL or GPL
> license though.

That is also what I remember, and the FSF site confirms. But as it happens,
parts of OpenSSL may be under less restrictive licenses.

Their x86_64 MD5 states:

# MD5 optimized for AMD64.
#
# Author: Marc Bevand <bevand_m (at) epita.fr>
# Licence: I hereby disclaim the copyright on this code and place it
# in the public domain.

Their SHA for a lot of archs say:

# Written by Andy Polyakov <appro at fy.chalmers.se> for the OpenSSL
# project. The module is, however, dual licensed under OpenSSL and
# CRYPTOGAMS licenses depending on where you obtain it. For further
# details see http://www.openssl.org/~appro/cryptogams/.

The "depending on where you obtain it" is unusual for a license and
ambiguous, but the tarball proposed on this URL clearly proposes optimized
SHA-1 under, unless I am mistaken, 3-clause BSD license (LGPL-compatible).

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George


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