Rostislav Pehlivanov <atomnuker <at> gmail.com> writes: > Fair enough, I will leave only the BSD-2 clause license > and I'll put the files as an exception when I send the > decoder as another RFC.
This would be fine but please see below: If you prefer the LGPL, please use it! > Ronald has agreed to review the decoder (on a technical > side of things) if he has time this weekend so I'll wait > for him to try to finish his review. Sounds great to me! > In any case, can you check out ./libavcodec/mips/aac* ? > They have both the BSD license and the FFmpeg license at > the top, which is what I did. If that's not valid then > we should probably consider doing something about that. You are right that there is something (imo very) wrong;-( > >but as said please choose one license and use (only) > >the one you choose for the newly added files. > > I would have used the LGPL license but unfortunately > since there are no specifications and only a reference > decoder I had to reuse parts of it (DCT and PVQ parts > of the code) and although you can argue that really > there is no other way to actually write a decoder the > BSD license states that whatever happens to the code > the license needs to stay. To the very best of my knowledge you are allowed to relicense code that was published under a two- (or three-) clause BSD license under the GPL (and the LGPL) as long as you keep the copyright notice. Carl Eugen _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
