[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] HE-AAC v1 try 5

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 07:06:36PM -0800, Jason Garrett-Glaser wrote:
> 2010/3/6 M?ns Rullg?rd <mans at mansr.com>:
> > Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> writes:
> >
> >> One thing though must be resolved first, and that are the variable names
> >> they are all 1:1 copied from the spec and i do not know if we can legally
> >> include this in a *GPL program in terms of copyright.
> >
> > Of course we can. ?Copyright doesn't extend that far.
> 
> And if we couldn't, then we better start rewriting the H.264 decoder.

our h264 decoder likely uses the same terms/variables as the spec
to refer to things. the code here though uses the same variable names
as sample C code in the spec.


> 
> This is a stupid concern.

then id like to know why did we had to rewrite an idct that was taken from
reference code?
Whats the difference that now its supposed to be ok but previously in a
similar case it was not?

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Michael     GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB

Many things microsoft did are stupid, but not doing something just because
microsoft did it is even more stupid. If everything ms did were stupid they
would be bankrupt already.
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