This only existed as essentially a workaround for meson's behavior and
to maintain compatibility with the waf build. Since waf put everything
in a generated subdirectory, we had to put make a subdirectory called
"generated" in the source for meson so stuff could go to the right
place. Well now we don't need to do that anymore. Move the meson.build
files around so they go in the appropriate place in the subdirectory of
the source tree and change the paths of the headers accordingly. A
couple of important things to note.
1. mpv.com now gets made in build/player/mpv.com (necessary because of
a meson limitation)
2. The macos icon generation path is shortened to
TOOLS/osxbundle/icon.icns.inc.
Now macosx_menubar.m and mpv.rc (win32) use the same copyright string.
(This is a bit roundabout, because mpv.rc can't use C constants. Also
the C code wants to avoid rebuilding real source files if only version.h
changed, so only version.c includes version.h.)
All authors have agreed.
mpv.exe.manifest probably can't have a copyright header, so it doesn't.
These files don't add license info to the executables. And of course the
executable license is still GPL.
For some reason, the lack of version info was preventing mpv from
appearing in the Default Programs dialog. Re-add it, but don't set the
string version numbers from version.h, because that's what was causing
trouble when the version info was removed. Like the binary version
numbers, these are now hardcoded to 2.0.0.0, which probably doesn't
matter.
The new version info block is also slightly different to the old one. It
fills out all the binary VERSIONINFO fields and makes better use of
macros. It also removes the \000 line terminators from the string
version info, since as far as I can tell, this was just cargo-culting
for an old broken version of the Microsoft resource compiler, and
binutils' windres terminates the strings properly without them.
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.
Dudemanguy
wm4
Ricardo Constantino
James Ross-Gowan
Marcin Kurczewski