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

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 10:26:10PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 06:11:38PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> > Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> writes:
> > 
> > > On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 04:13:47PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > > All references to mpegaudiotab.h I found with Google point back to
> > > FFmpeg or programs derived from FFmpeg.
> > >
> > > If you look at the file you'll see that it's just a bunch of constants
> > > and tables.  Since we're operating under the assumption that these are
> > > not copyrightable I suggest we remove the silly line about its license.
> > > In any case, it already claims to be (c) Fabrice ...
> > 
> > If they are copied from the ISO spec, they can't be (c) Fabrice.  In
> > fact, if that's where they come from, they have to be non-copyrightable,
> > or we can't legally distribute them.  Is Fabrice around?
> 
> I'll send a mail to Fabrice in order to doublecheck, but if you have a
> look at the file and another at the file in its initial revision you
> will see that it's just a bunch of tables and constants.  We're
> operating under the assumption that these are not copyrightable anyway.

License changed to LGPL as told by Fabrice.

Diego