On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 05:56:09PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 05:31:54 +0100 Diego Biurrun wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 12:22:54AM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote:
> > > On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 17:45:36 +0100 Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 11:23:43PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > > > There seems to be still a licensing issue, though...  :-(
> > > > > According to its debian/copyright[1], mplayer includes a file
> > > > > named mmx.h, whose licensing status
> > > [...]
> > > > > should be clarified, in order to get
> > > > > it under a DFSG-free license.
> > > > 
> > > > I've replaced this file upstream.  Andrea, you can grab my fix
> > > > from the MPlayer Subversion repository.
> > > 
> > > Good, where does the replacement come from?
> > 
> > FFmpeg
> > 
> > > Which license is available under?
> > 
> > I would say public domain since I doubt it's copyrightable, otherwise
> > you can consider it GPL like the rest of MPlayer.
> 
> Well, it depends on the FFmpeg licensing, I would say.

No, it does not, FFmpeg is LGPL with some parts GPL, thus combined it is
GPL.  Look at the file in question, it's just a handful of defines,
that's not copyrightable.

> I hope that the resolution of bug #398235 (which I've just filed against
> the ffmpeg package: http://bugs.debian.org/398235) will tell us...  ;-)

I resolved this problem upstream some time ago along with a bunch of other
licensing problems.

Diego


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