Re: Licensing problems for mpeg2vidcodec

2007-07-04 Thread François Févotte
On 7/3/07, Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Without consent from the copyright holders, I would say that you've got it in one. Without a licence, it is not free software, it is not even distributable so it cannot go into non-free either. Overall, it is about as off-limits as OutlookExpres

Re: Licensing problems for mpeg2vidcodec

2007-07-03 Thread Thomas Jollans
On Tuesday 03 July 2007, François Févotte wrote: > Dear Mentors, > > I would like to package mpeg2vidcodec, which the reference > implementation of the MPEG2 codec provided by the MPEG Software > Simulation Group[1]. It provides two binaries (mpeg2encode and > mpeg2decode), which are needed by Imag

Re: Licensing problems for mpeg2vidcodec

2007-07-03 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 16:49:36 +0200 "François Févotte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Mentors, > > I would like to package mpeg2vidcodec, which the reference > implementation of the MPEG2 codec provided by the MPEG Software > Simulation Group[1]. > > However, the authors of this software seem t

Licensing problems for mpeg2vidcodec

2007-07-03 Thread François Févotte
Dear Mentors, I would like to package mpeg2vidcodec, which the reference implementation of the MPEG2 codec provided by the MPEG Software Simulation Group[1]. It provides two binaries (mpeg2encode and mpeg2decode), which are needed by ImageMagick to handle MPEG files. However, the authors of this