[FFmpeg-devel] Legal status of MLP decoder/encoder + MLP DVD-Audio headers

[Paul B Mahol]

On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 10:29 AM Carl Eugen Hoyos <ceffmpeg at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Am Mi., 21. Aug. 2019 um 10:01 Uhr schrieb fabrice nicol <
> fabrnicol at gmail.com>:
>
> > I was wondering whether the ffmpeg team has investigated the potential
> > legal issues with the MLP decoder/encoder, as it was originally created
> > under proprietary licensing terms.
>
> To the best of our knowledge, the mlp decoder was written by Ian Caulfield,
> the mlp encoder by Jai Luthra, both were released under the terms of the
> LGPL.
>

mlp encoder was not written by Jai Luthra at all.

Why are you constantly spreading misinformation?


>
> > In particular, I'm wary that uploading to Sourceforge servers hosted in
> > the US may involve potential risks in this respect. Do you think it
> > necessary to refrain from posting on SF and sticking to
> > European-hosted servers, or is this just unecessary?
>
> Only your intellectual-property lawyer can answer this question,
> afaik nobody on this mailing list is an intellectual property lawyer.
>
> Carl Eugen
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