From aae9c405c750f87798030a3be3ef4b41d9c27cb7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Diego Biurrun Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:05:20 +0000 Subject: Move licensing information into a separate file called LICENSE and rewrite it for greater clarity in the process. Originally committed as revision 18185 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk --- README | 33 +-------------------------------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 32 deletions(-) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README index 7f3be6dcce..e907e90223 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -9,35 +9,4 @@ FFmpeg README 2) Licensing ------------ -* Read the file COPYING.LGPL. FFmpeg and the associated libraries EXCEPT - 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 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 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 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 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 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. - -* The file libavcodec/fdctref.c is copyrighted by the MPEG Software Simulation - Group with all rights reserved. It is only used to create a DCT test program - and not compiled into libavcodec. - -* Some external libraries are under GPL. If you wish to use them with FFmpeg, - you have to configure FFmpeg as GPL as well. +* See the LICENSE file. -- cgit v1.2.3