[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Reinstate proper FFmpeg license for all files.

Paul B Mahol onemda at gmail.com
Wed Aug 28 16:44:17 CEST 2013


On 8/28/13, Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 09:59:07AM +0200, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
>> On date Thursday 2013-08-22 02:10:46 +0200, Michael Niedermayer encoded:
>> > On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 02:08:05PM -0400, compn wrote:
>> > > On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 13:51:07 +0200, Thilo Borgmann wrote:
>> > > >ping
>> > >
>> > > i am ok with changing project name in copyright headers.
>> >
>> > that makes 2 vote (compn & thilo) for applyig it, noone against unless
>> > i missed someone
>> >
>> > some people voiced concerns about lavr
>> > what about that, can people reach some consensus on that ?
>> >
>>
>> > any other oppinons, comments ?
>>
>> I personally don't care much, my opinion is that you as overall
>> maintainer should have the last word on it, especially considering
>> that the issue tends to solicit bikeshedding.
>
> I dont care much what the headers say as long as its not outright
> missleading.
>
> also an alternative to this patchset would be to remove both libav
> and ffmpeg from the license headers
>
> The question is what does the community and the authors prefer?


Can you just apply this?

>
> also, using the linux source
> git grep -li 'Copyright' | wc
>   27234   27234  871728
> git grep -ii 'This file is part of ' | wc
>     591    6356   47769
>
>
> [...]
>
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