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

[Michel Bardiaux]

Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 11:46:03AM +0100, Michel Bardiaux wrote:
>> Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>>> On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 03:59:52PM +0100, Michel Bardiaux wrote:
>>>> Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
>>>>> and towards the authors, you can't expect others to argue for
>>>>> something that is not their goal...
>>>> If someone's goal is to force a mutation of the license to GPL, that is 
>>>> not acceptable.
>>> as diego said acceptable by whom?
>>> if we choose to change the license to GPL then so be it, actually any
>>> single person can fork ffmpeg and change it to GPL and continue development
>>> on that GPL version, 
>> Oh, I'm quite aware of the theory. But it covers *distribution*, not 
>> *development* aspects.
>>
>> Let's assume someone here tables a proposal to change everything to GPL. 
> 
> Are you aware of the fact that FFmpeg was once GPL but was relicensed to
> LGPL later on.  IIRC under somewhat shady circumstances, I'd appreciate
> mailing list archive links.

svn log COPYING shows it added, with LGPL, on 2002-05-26 by glantau. 
Before that, anyone remembers which file indicated the license?

> 
>> What will happen?
> 
> You will flame.

I would appreciate a serious answer. And what I write can hardly be 
called flaming: no profanity, no gratuitous insults, no bad spelling...

> 
>> What will the decision process be?
> 
> You will not be a part of it, that's for sure.

Interesting. Who will be, selected on what basis?

> 
>> Who gets to keep the unqualified name 'ffmpeg'? The www.ffmpeg.org domain?
> 
> This is owned by Fabrice.

Facts, facts... According to http://www.gandi.net/whois :

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