From e03b46184251ed469354f4f053b342be5a79980d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Diego Biurrun Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:28:01 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Clarify that our LGPL/GPL licenses come with an explicit "or later" clause. Originally committed as revision 18184 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk --- README | 19 +++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index 5a5cb16a96..7f3be6dcce 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -10,24 +10,27 @@ FFmpeg README ------------ * Read the file COPYING.LGPL. FFmpeg and the associated libraries EXCEPT - for libpostproc are licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License. + for libpostproc are licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License + version 2.1 or later. -* libpostproc is distributed under the GNU General Public License, see the - file COPYING.GPL for details. Its compilation and use in FFmpeg is optional. +* libpostproc is distributed under the GNU General Public License version 2 + or later, see the file COPYING.GPL for details. Its compilation and use in + FFmpeg is optional. * libswscale contains some optional processor-specific optimizations that are - distributed under the GNU General Public License. + distributed under the GNU General Public License version 2 or later. * The files libavcodec/x86/idct_mmx.c, libavcodec/x86/h264_deblock_sse2.asm and libavcodec/x86/h264_idct_sse2.asm are distributed under the GNU General - Public License. They are strictly optimizations and their use is optional. + Public License version 2 or later. They are strictly optimizations and + their use is optional. * The file libavcodec/ac3dec.c is distributed under the GNU General Public - License. In order for (E-)AC-3 decoding to work you need to enable GPL - components. + License version 2 or later. In order for (E-)AC-3 decoding to work you + need to enable GPL components. * The file libavdevice/x11grab.c is distributed under the GNU General - Public License. X11 grabbing is optional. + Public License version 2 or later. X11 grabbing is optional. * The files libavcodec/jfdctfst.c, libavcodec/jfdctint.c, libavcodec/jrevdct.c are taken from libjpeg, see the top of the files for licensing details.