[MPlayer-cvslog] r32836 - trunk/libvo/vo_vdpau.c

[Uoti Urpala]

On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 11:06 +0100, cehoyos wrote:
> Log:
> Allow LGPL re-distribution of vo_vdpau.c.
> 
> Agreed upon by Stephen Warren for Nvidia, Grigori Goronzy, Reimar and
> Ivan Kalvachev (as the developer of vo_xvmc.c which may have been the
> original source of the file).
> 
> Modified:
>    trunk/libvo/vo_vdpau.c
> 
> Modified: trunk/libvo/vo_vdpau.c
> ==============================================================================
> --- trunk/libvo/vo_vdpau.c	Mon Jan 31 10:55:19 2011	(r32835)
> +++ trunk/libvo/vo_vdpau.c	Mon Jan 31 11:06:29 2011	(r32836)
> @@ -18,6 +18,11 @@
>   * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
>   * with MPlayer; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
>   * 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
> + *
> + * You can alternatively redistribute this file and/or
> + * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
> + * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
> + * version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This is not legal, at least I was never asked about such a relicensing
(and at least preemption recovery is based on my code).

What's the motivation for such a change? Where would this be used under
LGPL?