[Ffmpeg-devel] moving non-SIMD parts of libswscale to LGPL

[Michel Bardiaux]

Guillaume Poirier wrote:
> Salut,
> 
> Michel Bardiaux a ?crit :
>> Diego Biurrun wrote:
>>> On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 11:39:19AM +0100, Michel Bardiaux wrote:
>>>> Luca Abeni wrote:
>>>>> a good number of swscale authors agreed to relicense the non-SIMD 
>>>>> parts
>>>>> as LGPL 
>>>> What are the plans for the SIMD parts?
>>>
>>> Leave them as GPL.
>>
>> From the first day there was talk of swscale, I was afraid it would 
>> end like this. With the removal of img_resample and that licensing, 
>> the LGPL version becomes a second-class implementation.
>>
>> There is not much I can do, but I dont have to like it.
> 
> FWIW, everybody who responded to the request to putting their code in 
> LGPL agreed to relicence it under LGPL.

No, the request was specifically for non-SIMD code. Some agreed for 
their whole contribution.

> The problem is that not every author responded...
> 
> Guillaume


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