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Diffstat (limited to 'Copyright')
-rw-r--r-- | Copyright | 12 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -2,9 +2,15 @@ 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+, BSD, MIT, ISC, and possibly others. Look at the copyright +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. Files without Copyright notice are licensed as LGPLv2+. +to know details. Files without Copyright notice are licensed as LGPLv2.1+. + +All new contributions must be LGPLv2.1+ licensed, or if the 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 the project to LGPLv2.1+ +easier.) For information about authors and contributors, consult the git log, which contains the complete SVN and CVS history as well. @@ -17,3 +23,5 @@ MPlayer as a whole is licensed under GPLv2 (incompatible to GPLv3!), because some files are licensed to GPLv2 (and _not_ any later version of the license). In particular, this affects the file libmpdemux/demux_ty_osd.c. It is disabled under mplayer2, and has been removed from mpv. + +"v2.1+" in this context means "version 2.1 or later". |