[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] G722 decoder
Kenan Gillet
kenan.gillet
Tue Mar 24 01:01:56 CET 2009
Hi,
On Mar 23, 2009, at 3:47 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> Kenan Gillet <kenan.gillet <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>>>> - switching to a compatible and acceptable licence
>>>
>>> I don't want to put words in his mouth but in the past Steve has
>>> been
>>> sensitive to licensing issues.
>>
>> yep, Steve Underwood was very responsive and the quest is over as he
>> declined
>> to relicense to "LGPL 2.1 and later."
>
> Since you already have contact to him:
> The patch posted here
> http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2008-June/048407.html
> clearly says the code (or, at least, Steve's contribution to it) is
> in the
> public domain. Could you ask Steve Underwood if Chas Williams
> illegally
> relicensed Steve's code (or if Steve has just changed his opinion).
> The additional question would be: Under which license did Chengxiang
> Lu and Alex
> Hauptmann from CMU (?) write their (original) contribution/codec?
>
Apparently, this header can also be found here:
http://www.soft-switch.org/spandsp-doc/non-gpl-bits_2g722_8h-source.html
so it existed at some point, but cannot find it in the few SpanDSP
distribution i checked
Kenan
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