[Ffmpeg-devel] overall license review - adding proper license headers

[Michel Lespinasse]

On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 04:12:34PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> Are you the author?  Did you give the permission to license it as LGPL
> within libavcodec?

I am the main contributor I believe, but there has been others too.

> Do you have some pointers?  I haven't been in this discussion, it must
> have been before my time, I'd be interested in reading up on it.

That was september 2003. I dont know where to find an ffmpeg list archive.

The licensing question came up, Rich went on and on about ffmpeg being free
to do whatever they please since the wording was unclear and how "someone
without a basic grasp on logic should not be coding". I told him that
he was being an asshole about this and the wording was Fabrice's.

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