[MPlayer-dev-eng] vidix status??

[Diego Biurrun]

On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 12:47:25AM +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 12:18:43AM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 10:11:12PM +0100, Alex Beregszaszi wrote:
> > > But again, how they can switch the license without asking other authors,
> > > like me? So we can definitely sync it back.
> > 
> > They can't and if they have done so behind your back maybe it's time to
> > send them an angry mail.
> 
> see http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/vidix/vidix/NEWS?rev=1.2&view=markup
> I have no clue what "added new licence: LGPL" is supposed to mean
> though.
> Intelligently it does not have a README file, so it's hard to find out
> what it is supposed to apply to - actually after grepping through the
> source tree, I did not find a single reference to the LGPL except that
> one (and grepping for "Lesser" does not give any results outside the
> license text itself either).
> This definitly is very weird.

Yes.  I've CCed Mans Rullgard to this mail, he works on the vidix.sf.net
project.  Mans, maybe you can shine some light on the situation?

Diego