[FFmpeg-soc] [soc]: r2023 - in dcaenc: . checkout.sh dcaenc.c dcaenc.h ffmpeg.patch readme

Benjamin Larsson banan at ludd.ltu.se
Thu Mar 20 15:27:58 CET 2008


Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 03:12:46PM +0100, Benjamin Larsson wrote:
>> Diego Biurrun wrote:
>>> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 02:40:50PM +0100, banan wrote:
>>>> --- (empty file)
>>>> +++ dcaenc/dcaenc.c	Thu Mar 20 14:40:49 2008
>>>> @@ -0,0 +1,379 @@
>>>> +/*
>>>> + * DCA encoder
>>>> + * Copyright (C) 2008 Alexander E. Patrakov
>>>> + *
>>>> + * This file is part of FFmpeg.
>>>> + *
>>>> + * When this file is part of FFmpeg it can be licensed under the LGPL 2.1
>>>> + * currently it is a wip
>>> Houston, we have a problem here.  First off, the first and the second
>>> sentence are a contradiction.  Second, FFmpeg is (mostly) licensed as
>>> LGPL 2.1+, so this code would cause license incompatibilities...
>>>
>>> So can we have this as standard LGPL 2.1+ please?
>> Fixed.
> 
> That was only a partial fix.  Now the promise is for LGPL 2.1, but
> FFmpeg is LGPL 2.1+ ...
> 
> Why this "when this code ever enters the magic wonderland, I shall
> bestow a free license upon it" in the first place?  Get the author to
> release this as LGPL 2.1+.

He did, when the code enters the FFmpeg code base. I just wanna respect
his wishes.

> If somebody cleans this up and integrates it
> into multimedia lib XYZ, it would be without a license grant...
> 
> Diego

MvH
Benjamin Larsson



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