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From: compn <ff@hawaiiantel.net>
To: ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org
Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Cherry picks vs merges
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2025 09:48:20 -1000
Message-ID: <20250601094820.000078cf@hawaiiantel.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250601192320.GV29660@pb2>

On Sun, 1 Jun 2025 21:23:20 +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:

> Hi James
> 
> On Sun, Jun 01, 2025 at 02:27:37PM -0300, James Almer wrote:
> > On 6/1/2025 12:22 PM, Michael Niedermayer wrote:  
> > > Hi all
> > > 
> > > almpeg is now merged upto 1 months ago. (and since last merge it contains
> > > bits of AGPL code)
> > > 
> > > The question now is, how does the community want to proceed from here?  
> > Full stop.
> >   
> 
> > Not only you're trying to bypass explicit a license notice on
> > technicalities,  
> 
> Code is either under the LGPL license or it is not.
> It cannot be sometimes under the LGPL license, the license headers
> on the files in question, distrinbuted by Paul are unmodified
> LGPL headers. There is no extra notice or anything in these headers.
> 
> If paul wants them to be GPL he can change these headers at any time.
> 
> And the "explicit license notice" you refer to is this:
> 
> "All Librempeg modifications, and any new files not available in FFmpeg, are licensed under GPL v2,
>  unless stated otherwise."
> 
> And it IS stated otherwise in these files by the license header in these
> files.

yes, see for example baptiste's ffmbc fork where he explicitly changed
the license in all files to GPLv2  https://github.com/bcoudurier/FFmbc

Also, please everyone, stop speaking for Paul and let him speak for
himself. if he wants to.

Developers leave, come back, and leave again. its a project made up of
volunteers. No one is forced to join and forced to stay forever.

-compn
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  reply	other threads:[~2025-06-01 19:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-06-01 15:22 Michael Niedermayer
2025-06-01 17:12 ` Kieran Kunhya via ffmpeg-devel
2025-06-01 17:27 ` James Almer
2025-06-01 19:23   ` Michael Niedermayer
2025-06-01 19:48     ` compn [this message]
2025-06-01 20:01     ` James Almer
2025-06-01 21:31       ` Michael Niedermayer
2025-06-02  4:46         ` Vittorio Giovara
2025-06-02 15:05         ` Michael Niedermayer
2025-06-02  7:41       ` Marton Balint
2025-06-02  8:23         ` softworkz .
2025-06-02 15:28           ` Michael Niedermayer
2025-06-02 15:57             ` Kieran Kunhya via ffmpeg-devel
2025-06-04 15:20           ` compn
2025-06-01 21:55     ` Kieran Kunhya via ffmpeg-devel
2025-06-02  4:36       ` Baptiste Coudurier
2025-06-02 15:38     ` Rémi Denis-Courmont
2025-06-03 13:09       ` Michael Niedermayer
2025-06-03 22:38         ` Kieran Kunhya via ffmpeg-devel
2025-06-04 14:51           ` Michael Niedermayer
2025-06-04 15:00             ` Kieran Kunhya via ffmpeg-devel
2025-06-04 15:35         ` Rémi Denis-Courmont
2025-06-04 18:06     ` Tomas Härdin
2025-06-04 20:42       ` Baptiste Coudurier
2025-06-04 22:41         ` Michael Niedermayer

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