On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 07:30:32PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: > On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 19:18:31 +0100 Diego Biurrun wrote: > > > 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: > [...] > > > > > 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. > > OK, but a part under the GNU LGPL stays under the GNU LGPL when it's > extracted from FFmpeg. > While a part under the GNU GPL will always be under the GNU GPL (both as > part of FFmpeg and when it's taken out).
Of course the license of source files does not change, but combined binaries are always GPL. > > Look at the file in question, it's just a handful of defines, > > that's not copyrightable. > > I've not yet seen the file taken from FFmpeg, so I cannot comment on its > copyrightability. > Take into account that determining whether something is or is not > copyrighted can be a hard task and (except for obvious cases) really > requires a good lawyer to be sure. > Unfortunately IANAL, so my opinion on the copyrightability of that file > is not so relevant... > > Anyway, is there any legal notice inside the file in question, so that > we can be on the safe side, should it turn out to be copyrighted? I've attached the file for your perusal. It's just a bunch of #defines. If this is copyrightable you can start closing down any sort of free software distribution ... Diego
#ifndef MPLAYER_MMX_H #define MPLAYER_MMX_H typedef union { long long q; /* Quadword (64-bit) value */ unsigned long long uq; /* Unsigned Quadword */ int d[2]; /* 2 Doubleword (32-bit) values */ unsigned int ud[2]; /* 2 Unsigned Doubleword */ short w[4]; /* 4 Word (16-bit) values */ unsigned short uw[4]; /* 4 Unsigned Word */ char b[8]; /* 8 Byte (8-bit) values */ unsigned char ub[8]; /* 8 Unsigned Byte */ float s[2]; /* Single-precision (32-bit) value */ } mmx_t; /* On an 8-byte (64-bit) boundary */ #define movq_m2r(var, reg) mmx_m2r(movq, var, reg) #define movq_r2m(reg, var) mmx_r2m(movq, reg, var) #define movq_r2r(regs, regd) mmx_r2r(movq, regs, regd) #define punpcklwd_m2r(var, reg) mmx_m2r(punpcklwd, var, reg) #define punpcklwd_r2r(regs, regd) mmx_r2r(punpcklwd, regs, regd) #define punpckhwd_m2r(var, reg) mmx_m2r(punpckhwd, var, reg) #define punpckhwd_r2r(regs, regd) mmx_r2r(punpckhwd, regs, regd) #define punpcklbw_r2r(regs, regd) mmx_r2r(punpcklbw, regs, regd) #define punpckhbw_r2r(regs, regd) mmx_r2r(punpckhbw, regs, regd) #define punpckhdq_r2r(regs, regd) mmx_r2r(punpckhdq, regs, regd) #define punpckldq_r2r(regs, regd) mmx_r2r(punpckldq, regs, regd) #define psubw_m2r(var, reg) mmx_m2r(psubw, var, reg) #define psubw_r2r(regs, regd) mmx_r2r(psubw, regs, regd) #define psubsw_r2r(regs, regd) mmx_r2r(psubsw, regs, regd) #define pmaddwd_r2r(regs, regd) mmx_r2r(pmaddwd, regs, regd) #define paddw_m2r(var, reg) mmx_m2r(paddw, var, reg) #define paddw_r2r(regs, regd) mmx_r2r(paddw, regs, regd) #define psrad_i2r(imm, reg) mmx_i2r(psrad, imm, reg) #define psllw_i2r(imm, reg) mmx_i2r(psllw, imm, reg) #define pmulhw_r2r(regs, regd) mmx_r2r(pmulhw, regs, regd) #define pmulhw_m2r(var, reg) mmx_m2r(pmulhw, var, reg) #define psraw_i2r(imm, reg) mmx_i2r(psraw, imm, reg) #define packssdw_r2r(regs, regd) mmx_r2r(packssdw, regs, regd) #define packuswb_r2r(regs, regd) mmx_r2r(packuswb, regs, regd) #define pxor_r2r(regs, regd) mmx_r2r(pxor, regs, regd) #define pcmpgtw_r2r(regs, regd) mmx_r2r(pcmpgtw, regs, regd) #define por_r2r(regs, regd) mmx_r2r(por, regs, regd) #define mmx_i2r(op,imm,reg) \ __asm__ __volatile__ (#op " %0, %%" #reg \ : /* nothing */ \ : "i" (imm) ) #define mmx_m2r(op, mem, reg) \ __asm__ __volatile__ (#op " %0, %%" #reg \ : /* nothing */ \ : "m" (mem)) #define mmx_r2m(op, reg, mem) \ __asm__ __volatile__ (#op " %%" #reg ", %0" \ : "=m" (mem) \ : /* nothing */ ) #define mmx_r2r(op, regs, regd) \ __asm__ __volatile__ (#op " %" #regs ", %" #regd) #define emms() __asm__ __volatile__ ("emms") #endif /* MPLAYER_MMX_H */