[FFmpeg-devel] Cleanup libswscale and reimplement GPL code under LGPL

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 02:58:11PM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote:
> Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 02:29:29PM +0200, Luca Abeni wrote:
> >> Hi Ramiro,
> >>
> >> Ramiro Polla wrote:
> >> [...]
> >>> I've looked at the license headers and a few svn annotates from GPL
> >>> files. What parts of the code is left in GPL?
> >> As far as I remember, the main GPLed parts are:
> >> - the SIMD optimisations
> >> - the code used to initialize the tables used for RGB <---> YUV
> >>    conversion (my experience is that it is particularly difficult
> >>    to rewrite this code without looking at the source, or without
> >>    having to modify the LGPLed code that uses the tables).
> > 
> > IMO rewriting the SIMD code because of GPL makes no sense, why would you
> > want to do that? The code can be used without SIMD, is it so bad that
> > non free software will be a little slower?
> > Also i will not review any rewritten SIMD code.
> 
> Fine by me, still I'd like to have libswscale completely reshaped so it 
> can be used (if that as additional bonus makes the separate libswscale 
> tree die, bonus)

What do you mean by "completely reshaped"? 
And  "can be used"?


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