[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Port x264 SSE2 deblocking code to H.264 decoder

[Måns Rullgård]

Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:58:12PM +0000, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>>
>> Diego Biurrun wrote:
>> > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:56:16AM +0000, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Loren Merritt wrote:
>> >> > On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> Since basicly only Loren and yourself have worked on that code, maybe
>> >> >> you'd both be willing to re-licence it in LGPL?
>> >> >
>> >> > I don't plan to relicense to LGPL.
>> >> > How loud will people complain if I optimize x264's deblocker in a way
>> >> > that's not drop-in compatible, update ffmpeg c to match, and delete the
>> >> > existing LGPL mmx versions?
>> >>
>> >> A simple "no" would have sufficed.  Are you on a crusade against all
>> >> things non-gpl or what?
>> >
>> > Now where did this come from?
>>
>> Did you read what Loren wrote?  He pretty much threatened to deliberately
>> destroy the existing lgpl optimisations.
>
> I rather read it as replacing existing optimizations by superior (GPL) ones.

That wouldn't require first making it incompatible with the lgpl version.

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