[haiku-development] Re: FFmpeg and licensing
- From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 01:13:45 +0200
On 16/07/2014 01:08, Urias McCullough wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 3:55 PM, SMC.Collins <smc.collins@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> You know what would make more sense, email the ffmpeg developers and ask
>> them to reliscence to a BSD or MIT type liscence, this way ,this kind of
>> stupidity can be avoided for all projects in the future.
>> Sean
>>
>
> Considering we are actually the smaller project (by user base, number of
> developers, and derivative works), I suspect they would simply ask us to
> change to GPL to avoid this kind of stupidity in the future.
I actually was the one who made them relicence to LGPL back then to be
able to use it in a BeOS codec addon without having to publish the rest
of the code...
Anyway what's wrong with GPL?
François.
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