[MPlayer-dev-eng] Sorry, but can I add licence lines in sources?

[Arpi]

Hi,

> I see  that Dariusz is asking to mplayer developers to add the GPL
> copyright line to source files :
>  I hope that we will be able to put mplayer in Debian soon!
I hope you won't... (we don't have resources to support millions of
apt-get users)

> instead: what about the code
> libavcodec/fdctref.c
>  that is copyrighted 
> /* Copyright (C) 1996, MPEG Software Simulation Group. All Rights Reserved. */
> 
> this does not seem to GPL. Where does this code come from?
as the license suggests, from the reference mpeg sources.


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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