[FFmpeg-devel] Licensing issue with idct_mmx.c

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On Wed, 6 Apr 2011 10:55:37 +0200, Alexandre Colucci wrote:
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>On 6 avr. 2011, at 00:07, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
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>> On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 09:42:13PM +0000, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
>>> Alexandre Colucci <alexandre <at> elgato.com> writes:
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>>>> 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?
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>Thanks for the comments!
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>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.


1) ffmpeg is not going to move this file (afaik)
2) there are no licensing issues with distributing this file.

if you wish you can make a script that runs configure and just have it
do:
rm ffmpeg/libavcodec/x86/idct_mmx.c && ./configure --whateveroptions

then when you configure ffmpeg just use that script.

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