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Rename to "mpv" This changes the name of this project to mpv. Most user-visible mentions of "MPlayer" and "mplayer" are changed to "mpv". The binary name and the default config file location are changed as well. The new default config file location is: ~/.mpv/ Remove etc/mplayer.desktop. Apparently this was for the MPlayer GUI, which has been removed from mplayer2 ages ago. We don't have a logo, and the MS Windows resource files sort-of require one, so leave etc/mplayer.ico/.xpm as-is. Remove the debian and rpm packaging scripts. These contained outdated dependencies and likely were more harmful than useful. (Patches which add working and well-tested packaging are welcome.)
2012-10-11 00:04:08 +00:00
mpv is a fork of mplayer2, which is a fork of MPlayer.
Copyright, LICENSE: switch to GPL version 2 or later Now that talloc has been removed, the license can be switched back to GPLv2+. Actually, there never was a GPLv2+ licensed MPlayer (fork or not) until now, but removal of some GPLv2-only code makes this possible now. Rewrite the Copyright file to explain the reasons for the licenses MPlayer and forks use. The old Copyright file didn't contain anything interesting anymore, and all information it contained is available at other places in the source tree. The reason for the license change itself is that it should improve interoperability with differently licensed code in general. This essentially reverts commit 1752808.
2013-10-12 23:18:50 +00:00
mpv as a whole is licensed as GPL version 2 or later (see LICENSE). Most source
files are GPLv2+, but some files are available under a more liberal license,
Require contributions in LGPLv2.1+ As suggested in #2033. Additionally, change "LGPLv2+" to "LGPLv2.1+". Since this was always used with the "and later" phrase, this doesn't require any further discussion. Also clarify that the "+" means "or later". This should be clear to anyone with a brain, but you never know with copyright.
2015-07-24 21:53:31 +00:00
such as LGPLv2.1+, BSD, MIT, ISC, and possibly others. Look at the copyright
Copyright, LICENSE: switch to GPL version 2 or later Now that talloc has been removed, the license can be switched back to GPLv2+. Actually, there never was a GPLv2+ licensed MPlayer (fork or not) until now, but removal of some GPLv2-only code makes this possible now. Rewrite the Copyright file to explain the reasons for the licenses MPlayer and forks use. The old Copyright file didn't contain anything interesting anymore, and all information it contained is available at other places in the source tree. The reason for the license change itself is that it should improve interoperability with differently licensed code in general. This essentially reverts commit 1752808.
2013-10-12 23:18:50 +00:00
header of each source file, and grep the sources for "Copyright" if you need
Copyright: list specific exceptions to stated rules The "Files without Copyright notice are licensed as LGPLv2.1+." statement makes it sound like the manpage and some other stuff are LGPL. But the rule actually affects only some source files that were added in mpv. Change the wording, and also explicitly list the licenses for some non source files. There might be more such cases.
2017-02-16 10:43:02 +00:00
to know details. C source files without Copyright notice are licensed as
LGPLv2.1+. Also see the list of files with specific licenses below (not all
files can have a standard license header).
Require contributions in LGPLv2.1+ As suggested in #2033. Additionally, change "LGPLv2+" to "LGPLv2.1+". Since this was always used with the "and later" phrase, this doesn't require any further discussion. Also clarify that the "+" means "or later". This should be clear to anyone with a brain, but you never know with copyright.
2015-07-24 21:53:31 +00:00
build: make LGPL mode final (via --enable-gpl) Rename --enable-preliminary-lgpl2 to --enable-gpl. This concludes the relicensing. Some things are still to do (relicensing some still-GPL optional code), but we consider the code included by --enable-gpl to be fully relicensed. The relicensing was performed by asking every known author for permission for relicensing it to LGPL version 2.1 "or later". If an author could not be contacted or permission could not be obtained, and the contribution was considered relevant for copyright purposes, the affected code was either excluded from LGPL mode (not built), or removed or rewritten. This is the standard in open source relicensing processes. Keep in mind that using LGPL mode is still on the user's own risk. Even though I claim that the relicensing was pretty clean and thorough (measured on the standards of the open source community¹), and I followed the advice of some actual experts, there is still a residual uncertainty due to the fact that I'm not an all-knowing entity (authors could have taken someone else's code and pretend it's their own) nor a lawyer (meaning I might lack associated authority or expertise), and the fact that the judicial system is far from deterministic. The relicensing was performed merely to the best of my knowledge. I reject all responsibility outside of that. This commit also cleans up the "Copyright" file to reflect the finalized relicensing process. ¹ Not to imply that the standards of commercial companies are much higher. Some major tech companies get away with stuff I would not consider clean. See #2033.
2017-10-10 14:21:01 +00:00
All new contributions must be LGPLv2.1+ licensed. Using a more liberal license
compatible to LGPLv2.1+ is also ok.
If changes are done on GPL code, must come with the implicit agreement that the
project can relicense the code to LGPLv2.1+ at a later point without asking the
contributor. This is a safeguard for making potential relicensing of remaining
GPL code to LGPLv2.1+ easier.
Copyright and authorship declaration along with an (incomplete) list of external code we include. git-svn-id: svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk@11606 b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2
2003-12-09 08:35:55 +00:00
Copyright, LICENSE: switch to GPL version 2 or later Now that talloc has been removed, the license can be switched back to GPLv2+. Actually, there never was a GPLv2+ licensed MPlayer (fork or not) until now, but removal of some GPLv2-only code makes this possible now. Rewrite the Copyright file to explain the reasons for the licenses MPlayer and forks use. The old Copyright file didn't contain anything interesting anymore, and all information it contained is available at other places in the source tree. The reason for the license change itself is that it should improve interoperability with differently licensed code in general. This essentially reverts commit 1752808.
2013-10-12 23:18:50 +00:00
For information about authors and contributors, consult the git log, which
contains the complete SVN and CVS history as well.
Clarify which version of the GPL applies to MPlayer. git-svn-id: svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk@30201 b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2
2010-01-04 13:01:44 +00:00
Require contributions in LGPLv2.1+ As suggested in #2033. Additionally, change "LGPLv2+" to "LGPLv2.1+". Since this was always used with the "and later" phrase, this doesn't require any further discussion. Also clarify that the "+" means "or later". This should be clear to anyone with a brain, but you never know with copyright.
2015-07-24 21:53:31 +00:00
"v2.1+" in this context means "version 2.1 or later".
Copyright: list specific exceptions to stated rules The "Files without Copyright notice are licensed as LGPLv2.1+." statement makes it sound like the manpage and some other stuff are LGPL. But the rule actually affects only some source files that were added in mpv. Change the wording, and also explicitly list the licenses for some non source files. There might be more such cases.
2017-02-16 10:43:02 +00:00
stream_smb: disable by default, mark as GPLv3 It seems libsmbclient has been GPLv3 for years. Also, it's certainly not LGPL (unlike some of its support libs like talloc). Thus, mpv built with Samba support is GPLv3. Disable it by default, so we don't have to go through the trouble to indicate the correct license in our output, and we don't trick people into distributing stuff under the wrong license.
2017-05-11 06:12:14 +00:00
Some libraries are GPLv2+ or GPLv3+ only. Building mpv with Samba support makes
it GPLv3+.
build: make LGPL mode final (via --enable-gpl) Rename --enable-preliminary-lgpl2 to --enable-gpl. This concludes the relicensing. Some things are still to do (relicensing some still-GPL optional code), but we consider the code included by --enable-gpl to be fully relicensed. The relicensing was performed by asking every known author for permission for relicensing it to LGPL version 2.1 "or later". If an author could not be contacted or permission could not be obtained, and the contribution was considered relevant for copyright purposes, the affected code was either excluded from LGPL mode (not built), or removed or rewritten. This is the standard in open source relicensing processes. Keep in mind that using LGPL mode is still on the user's own risk. Even though I claim that the relicensing was pretty clean and thorough (measured on the standards of the open source community¹), and I followed the advice of some actual experts, there is still a residual uncertainty due to the fact that I'm not an all-knowing entity (authors could have taken someone else's code and pretend it's their own) nor a lawyer (meaning I might lack associated authority or expertise), and the fact that the judicial system is far from deterministic. The relicensing was performed merely to the best of my knowledge. I reject all responsibility outside of that. This commit also cleans up the "Copyright" file to reflect the finalized relicensing process. ¹ Not to imply that the standards of commercial companies are much higher. Some major tech companies get away with stuff I would not consider clean. See #2033.
2017-10-10 14:21:01 +00:00
mpv can be built as LGPLv2.1+ with the --enable-lgpl configure option. To add
a LGPL mode to mpv, MPlayer code had to be relicensed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
by asking the MPlayer authors for permission. Since permission could not be
obtained from everyone, LGPL mode disables the following features, some of
them quite central:
build: add preliminary LGPL mode See "Copyright" file for caveats. This changes the remaining "almost LGPL" files to LGPL, because we think that the conditions the author set for these was finally fulfilled.
2017-09-21 11:50:18 +00:00
- no audio filtering, which breaks: --volume, --af, replaygain, pitch
correction, fine control about downmix/upmix/resampling behavior
- Linux X11 video output
- Linux audio output via ALSA (PulseAudio works)
- BSD audio output via OSS
vaapi: change license to LGPL Originally mpv vaapi support was based on the MPlayer-vaapi patches. These were never merged in upstream MPlayer. The license headers indicated they were GPL-only. Although the actual author agreed to relicensing, the company employing him to write this code did not, so the original code is unusable to us. Fortunately, vaapi support was refactored and rewritten several times, meaning little code is actually left. The previous commits removed or moved that to GPL-only code. Namely, vo_vaapi.c remains GPL-only. The other code went away or became unnecessary mainly because libavcodec itself gained the ability to manage the hw decoder, and libavutil provides code to manage vaapi surfaces. We also changed to mainly using EGL interop, making any of the old rendering code unnecessary. hwdec_vaglx.c is still GPL. It's possibly relicensable, because much of it was changed, but I'm not too sure and further investigation would be required. Also, this has been disabled by default for a while now, so bothering with this is a waste of time. This commit simply disables it at compile time as well in LGPL mode.
2017-09-29 16:44:47 +00:00
- NVIDIA/Linux hardware decoding (vdpau, although CUDA usually works)
build: add preliminary LGPL mode See "Copyright" file for caveats. This changes the remaining "almost LGPL" files to LGPL, because we think that the conditions the author set for these was finally fulfilled.
2017-09-21 11:50:18 +00:00
- many builtin video filters (use libavfilter instead)
- automatic rotation and stereoscopic video handling
- Linux TV input
- the --frames option
- the add/cycle and sub-add/audio-add/sub-remove/audio-remove commands
- video format conversion (if not supported by the VO)
- minor features: jack, DVD, CDDA, SMB, CACA, legacy direct3d VO
Some of these will be fixed in the future. The lack of the add/cycle commands
makes this particularly useless for CLI mode, and most of the appeal of LGPL
is for libmpv anyway. Thus it's not recommended to build mpv CLI in LGPL mode
at all.
build: make LGPL mode final (via --enable-gpl) Rename --enable-preliminary-lgpl2 to --enable-gpl. This concludes the relicensing. Some things are still to do (relicensing some still-GPL optional code), but we consider the code included by --enable-gpl to be fully relicensed. The relicensing was performed by asking every known author for permission for relicensing it to LGPL version 2.1 "or later". If an author could not be contacted or permission could not be obtained, and the contribution was considered relevant for copyright purposes, the affected code was either excluded from LGPL mode (not built), or removed or rewritten. This is the standard in open source relicensing processes. Keep in mind that using LGPL mode is still on the user's own risk. Even though I claim that the relicensing was pretty clean and thorough (measured on the standards of the open source community¹), and I followed the advice of some actual experts, there is still a residual uncertainty due to the fact that I'm not an all-knowing entity (authors could have taken someone else's code and pretend it's their own) nor a lawyer (meaning I might lack associated authority or expertise), and the fact that the judicial system is far from deterministic. The relicensing was performed merely to the best of my knowledge. I reject all responsibility outside of that. This commit also cleans up the "Copyright" file to reflect the finalized relicensing process. ¹ Not to imply that the standards of commercial companies are much higher. Some major tech companies get away with stuff I would not consider clean. See #2033.
2017-10-10 14:21:01 +00:00
The following files are still GPL only (--enable-lgpl disables them):
Copyright: add list of files that have to be relicensed This comes with estimated level of difficulty. Files which were already LGPL are listed too, to avoid potential confusion. Some entries use shell wildcards.
2017-05-05 06:38:30 +00:00
build: add preliminary LGPL mode See "Copyright" file for caveats. This changes the remaining "almost LGPL" files to LGPL, because we think that the conditions the author set for these was finally fulfilled.
2017-09-21 11:50:18 +00:00
audio/filter/* will be replaced with new filter chain
audio/filter/af_format.c mostly LGPL (except af glue code)
audio/filter/af_lavc3enc.c as above
audio/filter/af_lavfi.c as above
audio/filter/af_scaletempo.c as above
audio/filter/af_rubberband.c as above
build: make LGPL mode final (via --enable-gpl) Rename --enable-preliminary-lgpl2 to --enable-gpl. This concludes the relicensing. Some things are still to do (relicensing some still-GPL optional code), but we consider the code included by --enable-gpl to be fully relicensed. The relicensing was performed by asking every known author for permission for relicensing it to LGPL version 2.1 "or later". If an author could not be contacted or permission could not be obtained, and the contribution was considered relevant for copyright purposes, the affected code was either excluded from LGPL mode (not built), or removed or rewritten. This is the standard in open source relicensing processes. Keep in mind that using LGPL mode is still on the user's own risk. Even though I claim that the relicensing was pretty clean and thorough (measured on the standards of the open source community¹), and I followed the advice of some actual experts, there is still a residual uncertainty due to the fact that I'm not an all-knowing entity (authors could have taken someone else's code and pretend it's their own) nor a lawyer (meaning I might lack associated authority or expertise), and the fact that the judicial system is far from deterministic. The relicensing was performed merely to the best of my knowledge. I reject all responsibility outside of that. This commit also cleans up the "Copyright" file to reflect the finalized relicensing process. ¹ Not to imply that the standards of commercial companies are much higher. Some major tech companies get away with stuff I would not consider clean. See #2033.
2017-10-10 14:21:01 +00:00
audio/out/ao_alsa.c chaotic history, one later author did not decide
audio/out: change license of some core files to LGPL All contributors of the current code have agreed. ao.c requires a "driver" entry for each audio output - we assume that if someone who didn't agree to LGPL added a line, it's fine for ao.c to be LGPL anyway. If the affected audio output is not disabled at compilation time, the resulting binary will be GPL anyway, and ootherwise the code is not included. The audio output code itself was inspired or partially copied from libao in 7a2eec4b59f4 (thus why MPlayer's audio code is named libao2). Just to be sure we got permission from Aaron Holtzman, Jack Moffitt, and Stan Seibert, who according to libao's SVN history and README are the initial author. (Something similar was done for libvo, although the commit relicensing it forgot to mention it.) 242aa6ebd40: anders mostly disagreed with the LGPL relicensing, but we got permission for this particular commit. 0ef8e555735: nick could not be reached, but the include statement was removed again anyway. 879e05a7c17: iive agreed to LGPL v3+ only, but this line of code was removed anyway, so ao_null.c can be LGPL v2.1+. 9dd8f241ac2: patch author could not be reached, but the corresponding code (old slave mode interface) was completely removed later.
2017-05-20 09:35:25 +00:00
audio/out/ao_jack.c will stay GPL
Copyright: add list of files that have to be relicensed This comes with estimated level of difficulty. Files which were already LGPL are listed too, to avoid potential confusion. Some entries use shell wildcards.
2017-05-05 06:38:30 +00:00
audio/out/ao_oss.c will stay GPL
build: add preliminary LGPL mode See "Copyright" file for caveats. This changes the remaining "almost LGPL" files to LGPL, because we think that the conditions the author set for these was finally fulfilled.
2017-09-21 11:50:18 +00:00
audio/audio.* needed by af code only
Copyright: add list of files that have to be relicensed This comes with estimated level of difficulty. Files which were already LGPL are listed too, to avoid potential confusion. Some entries use shell wildcards.
2017-05-05 06:38:30 +00:00
demux/demux_tv.c will stay GPL
stream/ai_* will stay GPL (TV code)
stream/audio_in.* will stay GPL (TV code)
stream/dvb* must stay GPL
stream/frequencies.* must stay GPL
stream/stream_cdda.c unknown
stream/stream_dvb.* must stay GPL
stream/stream_dvd.c unknown
stream/stream_dvd_common.* unknown
stream/stream_dvdnav.c unknown
stream_smb: disable by default, mark as GPLv3 It seems libsmbclient has been GPLv3 for years. Also, it's certainly not LGPL (unlike some of its support libs like talloc). Thus, mpv built with Samba support is GPLv3. Disable it by default, so we don't have to go through the trouble to indicate the correct license in our output, and we don't trick people into distributing stuff under the wrong license.
2017-05-11 06:12:14 +00:00
stream/stream_smb.c will stay GPLv3
Copyright: add list of files that have to be relicensed This comes with estimated level of difficulty. Files which were already LGPL are listed too, to avoid potential confusion. Some entries use shell wildcards.
2017-05-05 06:38:30 +00:00
stream/stream_tv.c will stay GPL
stream/tv* will stay GPL
video/filter/vf_crop.c will be deleted
video/filter/vf_dsize.c will be deleted
video/filter/vf_expand.c will be deleted
video/filter/vf_flip.c will be deleted
video/filter/vf_format.c will be deleted
video/filter/vf_gradfun.c will be deleted
video/filter/vf_mirror.c will be deleted
video/filter/vf_noformat.c will be deleted
video/filter/vf_pullup.c will be deleted
video/filter/vf_rotate.c will be deleted
video/filter/vf_scale.c will be deleted
video/filter/vf_stereo3d.c will be deleted
video/filter/vf_sub.c will be deleted
video/filter/vf_yadif.c will be deleted
af_format: change license to LGPL This case is a bit weird, because MPlayer certainly also has a file named af_format.c. Both appear to have the function of converting audio data between sample formats. However, mpv's af_format.c is a rewrite, and doesn't actually do conversion by itself. It's similar to vf_format.c, and forces the generic filter chain code to insert conversion filters, instead of doing conversion explicitly. mpv's current af_format.c started out as af_force.c in d9582ad0a41. It was renamed to af_format.c in e60b8f181d, while the old af_format.c was split into two new filters. In 943c785619 the filename was changed to af_format.c as well. The new af_format.c does not contain any libaf code, except for some potentially copy & pasted skeleton and boilerplate code. (We don't account for this in per-filter file licenses, as the old libaf code has to be removed fully, at which point the filters will have to be ported to another framework, which will removed that boilerplate code.) The old filters based on af_format.c were progressively replaced and removed. Support for non-native endian and formats with signedness different from native FFmpeg was completely removed in 831d7c3c400b. The old 24 bit conversion code was removed in 552dc0d564 (made unnecessary by 5a9f817bfde8). Also list hwdec_vaglx.c as GPL-only, which doesn't have anything to do with this commit.
2017-05-11 09:00:15 +00:00
video/out/opengl/hwdec_vaglx.c GPL
Copyright: add list of files that have to be relicensed This comes with estimated level of difficulty. Files which were already LGPL are listed too, to avoid potential confusion. Some entries use shell wildcards.
2017-05-05 06:38:30 +00:00
video/out/vo_caca.c unknown
video/out/vo_direct3d.c unknown
video/out/vo_vaapi.c probably impossible (some company's code)
video/out/vo_vdpau.c probably impossible (nVidia's code)
video/out/vo_x11.c probably impossible
video/out/vo_xv.c probably impossible
video/out/x11_common.* probably impossible
video/vdpau.c hard (GPL-only parts must be ifdefed)
video/vdpau.h unknown
video/vdpau_mixer.* actual code must be rewritten
build: make LGPL mode final (via --enable-gpl) Rename --enable-preliminary-lgpl2 to --enable-gpl. This concludes the relicensing. Some things are still to do (relicensing some still-GPL optional code), but we consider the code included by --enable-gpl to be fully relicensed. The relicensing was performed by asking every known author for permission for relicensing it to LGPL version 2.1 "or later". If an author could not be contacted or permission could not be obtained, and the contribution was considered relevant for copyright purposes, the affected code was either excluded from LGPL mode (not built), or removed or rewritten. This is the standard in open source relicensing processes. Keep in mind that using LGPL mode is still on the user's own risk. Even though I claim that the relicensing was pretty clean and thorough (measured on the standards of the open source community¹), and I followed the advice of some actual experts, there is still a residual uncertainty due to the fact that I'm not an all-knowing entity (authors could have taken someone else's code and pretend it's their own) nor a lawyer (meaning I might lack associated authority or expertise), and the fact that the judicial system is far from deterministic. The relicensing was performed merely to the best of my knowledge. I reject all responsibility outside of that. This commit also cleans up the "Copyright" file to reflect the finalized relicensing process. ¹ Not to imply that the standards of commercial companies are much higher. Some major tech companies get away with stuff I would not consider clean. See #2033.
2017-10-10 14:21:01 +00:00
DOCS/man/ GPLv2+
bootstrap.py unknown license, probably GPLv2+ or LGPLv2+
etc/mplayer-input.conf unknown license, probably GPLv2+
mpv.desktop unknown license, probably GPLv2+
etc/restore-old-bindings.conf unkniwn license, probably GPLv2+
build: add preliminary LGPL mode See "Copyright" file for caveats. This changes the remaining "almost LGPL" files to LGPL, because we think that the conditions the author set for these was finally fulfilled.
2017-09-21 11:50:18 +00:00
build: make LGPL mode final (via --enable-gpl) Rename --enable-preliminary-lgpl2 to --enable-gpl. This concludes the relicensing. Some things are still to do (relicensing some still-GPL optional code), but we consider the code included by --enable-gpl to be fully relicensed. The relicensing was performed by asking every known author for permission for relicensing it to LGPL version 2.1 "or later". If an author could not be contacted or permission could not be obtained, and the contribution was considered relevant for copyright purposes, the affected code was either excluded from LGPL mode (not built), or removed or rewritten. This is the standard in open source relicensing processes. Keep in mind that using LGPL mode is still on the user's own risk. Even though I claim that the relicensing was pretty clean and thorough (measured on the standards of the open source community¹), and I followed the advice of some actual experts, there is still a residual uncertainty due to the fact that I'm not an all-knowing entity (authors could have taken someone else's code and pretend it's their own) nor a lawyer (meaning I might lack associated authority or expertise), and the fact that the judicial system is far from deterministic. The relicensing was performed merely to the best of my knowledge. I reject all responsibility outside of that. This commit also cleans up the "Copyright" file to reflect the finalized relicensing process. ¹ Not to imply that the standards of commercial companies are much higher. Some major tech companies get away with stuff I would not consider clean. See #2033.
2017-10-10 14:21:01 +00:00
The following files contain some optional GPL code (--enable-lgpl disables it):
build: add preliminary LGPL mode See "Copyright" file for caveats. This changes the remaining "almost LGPL" files to LGPL, because we think that the conditions the author set for these was finally fulfilled.
2017-09-21 11:50:18 +00:00
input/cmd_list.c potentially some commands
options/options.c --frames option
options/parse_commandline.c dvd:// expansion
player/audio.c libaf glue code
player/loadfile.c --frames option (minor but probably fatal)
player/osd.c OSD level 3
build: switch preliminary LGPL mode from v3 to v2.1 iive agreed to relicense things that are still in mpv to LGPLv2.1. So change the licenses of the affected files, and rename the configure switch for LGPL mode to --enable-preliminary-lgpl2. (The "preliminary" part will probably be removed from the configure switch soon as well.) Also player/main.c hasn't had GPL parts since a few commits ago.
2017-10-05 13:54:10 +00:00
player/command.c add/cycle command, possibly sub-add command
build: make LGPL mode final (via --enable-gpl) Rename --enable-preliminary-lgpl2 to --enable-gpl. This concludes the relicensing. Some things are still to do (relicensing some still-GPL optional code), but we consider the code included by --enable-gpl to be fully relicensed. The relicensing was performed by asking every known author for permission for relicensing it to LGPL version 2.1 "or later". If an author could not be contacted or permission could not be obtained, and the contribution was considered relevant for copyright purposes, the affected code was either excluded from LGPL mode (not built), or removed or rewritten. This is the standard in open source relicensing processes. Keep in mind that using LGPL mode is still on the user's own risk. Even though I claim that the relicensing was pretty clean and thorough (measured on the standards of the open source community¹), and I followed the advice of some actual experts, there is still a residual uncertainty due to the fact that I'm not an all-knowing entity (authors could have taken someone else's code and pretend it's their own) nor a lawyer (meaning I might lack associated authority or expertise), and the fact that the judicial system is far from deterministic. The relicensing was performed merely to the best of my knowledge. I reject all responsibility outside of that. This commit also cleans up the "Copyright" file to reflect the finalized relicensing process. ¹ Not to imply that the standards of commercial companies are much higher. Some major tech companies get away with stuff I would not consider clean. See #2033.
2017-10-10 14:21:01 +00:00
None of the exceptions listed above affect the final binary if it's built as
LGPL. Linked libraries still can affect the final license (for example if
FFmpeg was built as GPL).
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