[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] avfilter/vf_cropdetect: change license to LGPL

[Aman Gupta]

On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 2:35 PM, Aman Gupta <ffmpeg at tmm1.net> wrote:

> From: Aman Gupta <aman at tmm1.net>
>
> This filter was imported from mplayer's libmpcodecs/vf_cropdetect.c, and
> marked as GPL when originally copied over.
>
> On the mplayer side, it was authored originally by arpi and subsequently
> touched by
> the following contributors. See https://github.com/pigoz/
> mplayer-svn/commits/master/libmpcodecs/vf_cropdetect.c
>
>   arpi
>   albeu
>   diego
>   reimar
>   michael
>   reynaldo
>   lucabe
>   cehoyos
>
> Of these contributors, all except the last two granted their permission to
> relicense
> mplayer changes to LGPL. See https://github.com/mpv-player/
> mpv/wiki/List-of-MPlayer-LGPL-relicensing-agreements
>
> The change by lucabe was to remove an include header, and the change by
> cehoyos was to
> change whitespace. Both are trivial and can be ignored for copyright
> purposes. See
> https://github.com/pigoz/mplayer-svn/commit/6da0237a4#diff-
> 2d400db883ad8bca0e5d6a78f12613fd
> and https://github.com/pigoz/mplayer-svn/commit/04d069fcb#diff-
> 2d400db883ad8bca0e5d6a78f12613fd
>
> The import into ffmpeg was done by Stefano Sabatini. It was then touched
> by the following
> contributors, who specifically made changes to the filter. This does not
> include
> commits which changed this file but were part of larger refactorings that
> changed
> lavfi APIs and other LGPL filters as well. See
> https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commits/master/
> libavfilter/vf_cropdetect.c
>
>   Stefano Sabatini
>   Michael Niedermayer
>   Anton Khirnov
>   Clément Bœsch
>   Paul B Mahol
>   Carl Eugen Hoyos
>   Vittorio Giovara
>   Ganesh Ajjanagadde
>
> The people above are CC'd on this patch for their permission to relicense
> vf_cropdetect as LGPL.
>

I received an OK from Ganesh.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: yV7e6RyE gAQ0A4k4 <gajjanagadde at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 4:16 PM
Subject: Re: [PATCH] avfilter/vf_cropdetect: change license to LGPL
To: Aman Gupta <ffmpeg at tmm1.net>


I am fine with the license change.

Best wishes,
Ganesh


> ---
>  configure                   |  1 -
>  libavfilter/vf_cropdetect.c | 18 +++++++++---------
>  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/configure b/configure
> index 3788f26956..c1bdea9fa5 100755
> --- a/configure
> +++ b/configure
> @@ -3185,7 +3185,6 @@ coreimage_filter_extralibs="-framework OpenGL"
>  coreimagesrc_filter_deps="coreimage appkit"
>  coreimagesrc_filter_extralibs="-framework OpenGL"
>  cover_rect_filter_deps="avcodec avformat gpl"
> -cropdetect_filter_deps="gpl"
>  deinterlace_qsv_filter_deps="libmfx"
>  deinterlace_vaapi_filter_deps="vaapi"
>  delogo_filter_deps="gpl"
> diff --git a/libavfilter/vf_cropdetect.c b/libavfilter/vf_cropdetect.c
> index 7c7d0b953a..84abbe714c 100644
> --- a/libavfilter/vf_cropdetect.c
> +++ b/libavfilter/vf_cropdetect.c
> @@ -2,19 +2,19 @@
>   * Copyright (c) 2002 A'rpi
>   * This file is part of FFmpeg.
>   *
> - * FFmpeg is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> - * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
> - * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
> - * (at your option) any later version.
> + * FFmpeg is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
> + * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
> + * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
> + * version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
>   *
>   * FFmpeg is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
>   * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
> - * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
> - * GNU General Public License for more details.
> + * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
> + * Lesser General Public License for more details.
>   *
> - * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
> - * with FFmpeg; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
> - * 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
> + * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
> + * License along with FFmpeg; if not, write to the Free Software
> + * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
> 02110-1301 USA
>   */
>
>  /**
> --
> 2.14.2
>
>