[FFmpeg-devel] Licensing issue with idct_mmx.c

[Peter Ross]

On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 10:55:37AM +0200, Alexandre Colucci wrote:
> 
> On 6 avr. 2011, at 00:07, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 09:42:13PM +0000, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> >> Alexandre Colucci <alexandre <at> elgato.com> writes:
> >> 
> >>> GPL is disable so my binary doesn't contain this code.
> >> 
> >> Good (if you want/need LGPL).
> >> 
> >>> But the fact that a file containing GPL source code (even if not compiled) is
> >>> in my repository sounds like a major licensing issue to me.
> >> 
> >> Why?
> >> Please explain the problem.
> >> (While it is very, very unlikely, I could theoretically imagine a problem with
> >> the file if you distribute it, but as long as your explanation is "there is
> >> disabled GPL code in the same folder as my LGPL code", I don't think anybody can
> >> help you.)
> > 
> > i also see no problem with this but maybe i miss something?

Ditto.

> Thanks for the comments!
> 
> It will be possible to download my source code and compiled binary. The binary will only contain LGPL code. But I want to avoid to have unused GPL source files in the distributed source code. This might cause a licensing issue (although I am not an expert and you know more about this licensing issues than me). Currently each time I synchronize my sources with libavcodec, I manually remove this GPL file (idct_mmx.c) from my repository. That's the reason I am looking for a better solution (like moving idct_mmx.c outside of libavcodec). If I forget to remove this GPL source file when publishing my source code, I might have some licensing issues.

Another option at your disposal is to rewrite idct_mxx.c.

-- Peter
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