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

[Diego Biurrun]

On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 10:19:35PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 09:23:09PM +0200, Fran?ois Revol wrote:
> >> > Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> >> > > 
> >> > > 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?
> >> 
> >> Please stop assuming non-GPL == non-Free.
> >> There are many software out there that are non GPL and Free (including 
> >> FreeBSD and other clones).
> >
> > You completely misunderstand the point.
> 
> What, exactly, is the point?

Francois seems to misunderstand what Michael is referring to.  Of course
there is free software under licenses different from the GPL.  However,
only GPL-compatible software could use the SIMD code under GPL and the
combined work would become GPL.  This excludes non-free software from
using the SIMD code, not something under LGPL or X11/MIT/ISC licenses.

Diego