From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from ffbox0-bg.ffmpeg.org (ffbox0-bg.ffmpeg.org [79.124.17.100]) by master.gitmailbox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5DF004D832 for ; Mon, 2 Jun 2025 07:44:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.1.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ffbox0-bg.ffmpeg.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BFD368DC9F; Mon, 2 Jun 2025 10:44:38 +0300 (EEST) Received: from iq.passwd.hu (iq.passwd.hu [217.27.212.140]) by ffbox0-bg.ffmpeg.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 144CE68DC68 for ; Mon, 2 Jun 2025 10:44:32 +0300 (EEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by iq.passwd.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26C70EB080 for ; Mon, 2 Jun 2025 09:41:26 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at passwd.hu Received: from iq.passwd.hu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (iq.passwd.hu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id EV7f3E4x3clc for ; Mon, 2 Jun 2025 09:41:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: from iq (iq [217.27.212.140]) by iq.passwd.hu (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DCF4EEB079 for ; Mon, 2 Jun 2025 09:41:23 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2025 09:41:23 +0200 (CEST) From: Marton Balint To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <5c3644b0-40b4-244b-760a-96fb7f896bc6@passwd.hu> References: <20250601152222.GU29660@pb2> <7fa92fbb-f6cb-40c1-b95e-3d6a77e6cbcf@gmail.com> <20250601192320.GV29660@pb2> MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Cherry picks vs merges X-BeenThere: ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: FFmpeg development discussions and patches List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Reply-To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Errors-To: ffmpeg-devel-bounces@ffmpeg.org Sender: "ffmpeg-devel" Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Post: On Sun, 1 Jun 2025, James Almer wrote: > On 6/1/2025 4:23 PM, 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, >> >> This is a serious accusation. >> >> 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. > > This is the technicality i was talking about. The fact he copy-pasted a > boilerplate LGPL header in all new files being used as a way to invoke the > "unless stated otherwise" part of the notice. > > I'm not against merging his changes, and i apologize if what i said before > sounded like an accusation, but the way i want this to go forward is with him > being ok with it, and not us trying to find a way to workaround what was > seemingly his intention to license his changes a certain way. +1. Yeah, Paul changing the license was not nice, but ffmpeg as a project merging his work against his will would not be nice either, even if it might be legally OK, it certainly would not be OK morally. Regards, Marton _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-devel-request@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".