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author | wm4 <wm4@nowhere> | 2017-10-13 15:37:55 +0200 |
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committer | wm4 <wm4@nowhere> | 2017-10-13 15:44:55 +0200 |
commit | fc013ea8ac3ba0db5086d45de09b4378909925d9 (patch) | |
tree | 6f7423072574723d5dcc4083dca1bbf2e7d493de /Copyright | |
parent | 902ae9ae41091fbd95c223ac79fa1fa9f96cd011 (diff) | |
download | mpv-fc013ea8ac3ba0db5086d45de09b4378909925d9.tar.bz2 mpv-fc013ea8ac3ba0db5086d45de09b4378909925d9.tar.xz |
Copyright: some more licensing clarifications
Unfortunately I'm also adding the full text of the LGPL license text,
because the GPL one was already present in this repository, and I don't
want to imply that the GPL somehow has priority.
Diffstat (limited to 'Copyright')
-rw-r--r-- | Copyright | 25 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 10 deletions
@@ -1,20 +1,25 @@ mpv is a fork of mplayer2, which is a fork of MPlayer. -mpv as a whole is licensed as GPL version 2 or later (see LICENSE). Most source -files are GPLv2+, but some files are available under a more liberal license, -such as LGPLv2.1+, BSD, MIT, ISC, and possibly others. Look at the copyright -header of each source file, and grep the sources for "Copyright" if you need -to know details. C source files without Copyright notice are licensed as -LGPLv2.1+. Also see the list of files with specific licenses below (not all -files can have a standard license header). +mpv as a whole is licensed under the GNU General Public License GPL version 2 +or later (called GPLv2+ in this document, see LICENSE.GPL for full license +text) by default, or the GNU Lesser General Public License LGPL version 2 or +later (LGPLv2.1+ in this document, see LICENSE.LGPL for full license text) if +built with the --enable-lgpl configure switch. + +Most source files are LGPLv2.1+ or GPLv2+, but some files are available under +more liberal licenses, such as BSD, MIT, ISC, and possibly others. Look at the +copyright header of each source file, and grep the sources for "Copyright" if +you need to know details. C source files without Copyright notice are usually +licensed as LGPLv2.1+. Also see the list of files with specific licenses below +(not all files can have a standard license header). All new contributions must be LGPLv2.1+ licensed. Using a more liberal license compatible to LGPLv2.1+ is also ok. If changes are done on GPL code, must come with the implicit agreement that the -project can relicense the code to LGPLv2.1+ at a later point without asking the -contributor. This is a safeguard for making potential relicensing of remaining -GPL code to LGPLv2.1+ easier. +project can relicense the changes to LGPLv2.1+ at a later point without asking +the contributor. This is a safeguard for making potential relicensing of +remaining GPL code to LGPLv2.1+ easier. For information about authors and contributors, consult the git log, which contains the complete SVN and CVS history as well. |