[FFmpeg-devel] FFmpeg code Attribution

[Rostislav Pehlivanov]

On 23 March 2016 at 21:22, Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos at ag.or.at> wrote:

> Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger <at> gmx.de> writes:
>
> > If it is copied the authors will hopefully admit to it
> > (and hopefully be more careful about attribution in the
> > future).
>
> I of course agree with what you wrote but the original
> author of the jpeg 2000 codec was unreachable a few
> weeks after he had submitted the code and that was
> nearly ten years ago...
>
> Do we have the jpeg 2000 specification for comparison?
>

I've uploaded all jpeg2000 specs I have as a .tar.gz archive here:
https://0x0.st/KGO.gz
8 megabytes is a bit too big for the mailing list
Link will probably be around for around a year

IIRC most of the jpeg2000 code in FFmpeg was written during a summer of
code in 2007 or so.