license, was Re: [MPlayer-dev-eng] Sorry, but can I add licence lines in sources?
Arpi
arpi at thot.banki.hu
Sun Nov 24 11:39:39 CET 2002
Hi,
> libavcodec/jfdctint.c
> same license as libjpeg62 (which should be shipped with the
> code, and it is not)
> libavcodec/armv4l/jrevdct_arm.S
> generic "no liability/as is" license
> libavcodec/fdctref.c
> generic "no liability/as is" license,
> Copyright (C) 1996, MPEG Software Simulation Group. All Rights
> Reserved.
> [PROBLEM FIXED: we delete the file from tarball for Debian]
dunno, but they belong to the ffmpeg project, they aren't in mplayer cvs.
ask ffmpeg authors (Michael, Fabrice) - ffmpeg is said GPL/LGPL.
> libvo/vo_pgm.c
> libvo/vo_md5.c
> probably the same as libavcodec/fdctref.c (same copyright MPEG...)
they came from mpeg2dec which is afaik GPL
> libvo/vo_sdl.c
> undecided, but it seems that it was GPL in the past
it was (re)written by Atmos, for mplayer
> libmpcodecs/native/xa_gsm.c
> generic "no liability/as is" license,
it's from xanim, Mark Podlipec (xanim author) gave the right for us to
distribute it under gpl. Gabucino can lookup teh mail if you want
> libdha/pci.c
> libdha/sysdep/libdha_os2.c
> generic "no liability/as is" license (from XConsortium code base?)
dunno
it was imported by Nick
> mp3lib/*
> refers to nonexistent README; moreover the code seems to be
> taken from mpglib in mpg123, which is not GPL.
yes it's from mpg123's mpglib, which is LGPL since a while (and was GPL before)
> libmpdemux/genres.h
> Copyright (C) 2001 Jason Carter
> refers to an unavailable LICENSE; it only contains the list of genres
dunno
> 2) In the following files there is an explicit copyright statement, but no
> license: for some files I could track down a GPL or LGPL origin:
>
> libvo/vo_mpegpes.c
> same as ffmpeg
i wrote it, reusing few lines/ideas from the linuxtv project, which is GPL
> libvo/vo_dxr3.c
> was part of ffmpeg, see
> http://mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-cvslog/2001-November/003377.html
afaik it's based on vo_mpegpes
> drivers/video/radeonfb.c
> framebuffer driver for ATI Radeon chipset video boards,
> probably from linux kernel code; drivers/radeon/radeon_vid.c is GPL
it was written by Nick, based on mga_vid.c and some kernel sources
> linux/lrmi.c
> seems to be taken from http://cvs.debian.org/lrmi/
dunno
i've seen the lrmi code in SVGAlib src tree years ago
> loader/*.c
> loader/module.c
> loader/pe_image.c
> loader/pe_resource.c
> loader/elfdll.c
> loader/wine/*
> loader/qtx/debug/module.c
> from wine ?
from avifile.
the original avifile code comes from wine & wabi, ~3 years ago
since that most of the code has been changed/rewritten by avifile & mplayer
authors
> 3) This I think we may consider GPL, since they are part of the mplayer
> code, and were written by mplayer's authors
>
> libvo/vo_dga.c
it's by Acki, for mplayer
> loader/dshow/DS_AudioDecoder.c
it was written by Eugene Kuznetsov for avifile, later converted c++->c by
Miguel F. (xine project). both are GPL.
> 4) these are the files remaining:
>
> TOOLS/benchmark-gab/README
> Author: gabucino
> License: for exclusive usage with MPlayer (wonder;)
> [I understand that this is intended as a pun; but the
> phrase "for exclusive usage" is against the Debian Freesoftware
> guideline; so I wish that gabucino may not mind changing the
> License statement]
as it runs mplayer with various parameters, it has no sense to use without
mplayer. it's just a test case for mplayer development.
> TOOLS/mpfc/mpfc-kr.c
> TOOLS/mpfc/mpfc-ce.c
> Author: Sunjin Yang <lethean at realtime.ssu.ac.kr>
> just says that it was created for mplayer
yes it was written for us
btw it's obsolete code, we're using subfont-c nowdays
A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team
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