2017-04-15 2:35 GMT+02:00 wm4 <nfx...@googlemail.com>: > Legally, all these copyright headers are meaningless, as long as the > license is correct.
You are joking, right? > If they weren't, FFmpeg would be in trouble for changing the copyright > headers of all files added by Libav from "Libav" to "FFmpeg". Nobody is talking about the project name. > It's possible that Libav is not always careful with attribution, but > it's the same with FFmpeg. For example, af_pan.c is LGPL, even though > it was ported from MPlayer GPL code, and the author could not be > contacted. Recently, I contacted the same author about relicensing the > same MPlayer code (of which af_pan.c was a subset of) to LGPL, and he > explicitly denied relicensing. So if I had been cehoyos, I probably > wouldn't shut up about how FFmpeg violates copyrights (fortunately I'm > not cehoyos). I think nowadays af_pan.c certainly does not violate the > original author's copyright though, because absolutely all code was > removed/replaced. Do I understand correctly that you are neither defaming Clement nor doing something that is illegal? Carl Eugen _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
