On Sun, 1 Jun 2025, James Almer wrote:
On 6/1/2025 4:23 PM, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
Hi James
On Sun, Jun 01, 2025 at 02:27:37PM -0300, James Almer wrote:
On 6/1/2025 12:22 PM, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
Hi all
almpeg is now merged upto 1 months ago. (and since last merge it
contains
bits of AGPL code)
The question now is, how does the community want to proceed from here?
Full stop.
Not only you're trying to bypass explicit a license notice on
technicalities,
This is a serious accusation.
Code is either under the LGPL license or it is not.
It cannot be sometimes under the LGPL license, the license headers
on the files in question, distrinbuted by Paul are unmodified
LGPL headers. There is no extra notice or anything in these headers.
If paul wants them to be GPL he can change these headers at any time.
And the "explicit license notice" you refer to is this:
"All Librempeg modifications, and any new files not available in FFmpeg,
are licensed under GPL v2,
unless stated otherwise."
And it IS stated otherwise in these files by the license header in these
files.
This is the technicality i was talking about. The fact he copy-pasted a
boilerplate LGPL header in all new files being used as a way to invoke the
"unless stated otherwise" part of the notice.
I'm not against merging his changes, and i apologize if what i said before
sounded like an accusation, but the way i want this to go forward is with him
being ok with it, and not us trying to find a way to workaround what was
seemingly his intention to license his changes a certain way.
+1. Yeah, Paul changing the license was not nice, but ffmpeg as a project
merging his work against his will would not be nice either, even if it
might be legally OK, it certainly would not be OK morally.
Regards,
Marton
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