>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.
Yes, that's what I've concluded as well. Basically, the license says: >Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. Which means as long as I keep all the copyright notice of previous contributors (e.g. Copyright 2001-2015 Xiph.org) I am allowed to change the license. I was under the impression I was unable to remove the BSD license So for the next RFC I'll just use the project's LGPL license, which is what I prefer. Thanks for the help. On 2 January 2016 at 00:41, Carl Eugen Hoyos <ceho...@ag.or.at> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
