On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 02:52:59AM -0500, Rich Felker wrote: > On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 07:02:42PM -0600, Karl Berry wrote: > > Greetings -- my apologies if this is the wrong list. (It isn't a usage > > or compilation question, at least.) It's about the web page > > http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/info.html, and its statement > > > > MPlayer is available under the GNU General Public License version 2. > > > > However, the documentation page > > http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/index.html > > says that any later version of the GPL is also allowed: > > > > MPlayer is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it > > under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by > > the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or > > (at your option) any later version. > > > > I did not check every one of the 1100+ source files, but I did check a > > bunch of them, and they also said GPLv2 or later, not GPLv2-only > > (happily, from my perspective). > > > > So, assuming it really is GPLv2 or later, could info.html be updated to > > match? > > I suspect there is at least one piece of v2-only code somewhere in > MPlayer, but this is an issue that really requires some research to > resolve. If you'd like to dig thru all the files and publish your > results, I'm sure it would be helpful to someone or other.
It would be most helpful, yes. Off the top of my head I remember that libaf/af_lavcresample.c and libaf/af_sweep.c have the following at the top of the file: // #inlcude <GPL_v2.h> This is suboptimal of course. We'll have to convince Michael to replace that with a proper license header. Diego _______________________________________________ MPlayer-DOCS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-docs
