[FFmpeg-devel] [VOTE] License header consistency

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 04:33:58PM +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Monday, 18 August 2008 at 16:23, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 03:02:37PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> > > Ivan Kalvachev wrote:
> [...]
> > > > This check would also exclude the possibility of using more permissive
> > > > licenses like BSD, MIT, public code - e.g. vc1dsp_mmc.c
> > > 
> > > Good point.  We could have a list of allowed licenses, of course.
> > 
> > I think a better, and easier to maintain approch would be to grep for
> > the problematic parts in head -n 123 file
> > that is "this library" "<non existent version>" "<old address>"
> 
> Whitelist approach is better in this case IMHO, i.e. grep for
> "part of FFmpeg" "GPL version 2|LGPL version 2.1" "current address"
> and fail if no match.

that approch fails for:
BSD license
MIT license
public domain
mixtures of "part of FFmpeg" and "this library"

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