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

[Clément Bœsch]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 04:52:03PM +0200, Uoti Urpala wrote:
> 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?
> 

I'll revert it tonight if Carl doesn't do it in time. Sorry not to do it
immediately but:

    12. Always send a patch to the mplayer-dev-eng mailing list before committing
        if you suspect that the change is going to be controversial. Based on past
        experience, these changes are likely to be controversial:
        [...]
         - reverting commits from other developers

Regards,

-- 
Clément B.