[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] G722 decoder

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 09:24:44AM +0000, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> Diego Biurrun <diego <at> biurrun.de> writes:
> 
> > > + * G.722 ADPCM audio decoder
> > > + *
> > > + * Copyright (c) 2005 Steve Underwood <steveu at coppice.org>
> > > + * Copyright (c) CMU 1993 Computer Science, Speech Group
> > > + *                        Chengxiang Lu and Alex Hauptmann
> > 
> > Who wrote this?  Do you have permission to license as LGPL?
> 
> The original code can be found here:
> http://www.soft-switch.org/downloads/spandsp/
> It is already distributed under LGPL

No, it is distributed as LGPL 2.1, while FFmpeg is LGPL 2.1 or later.
This is incompatible and thus unacceptable.

More importantly: Who gave permission to license LGPL 2.1 code as LGPL
2.1 or later?

Diego