[XviD-devel] License for RELEASE 0.9

[daniel smith]

no objections here.

----- Original Message -----
From: Christoph Lampert <chl@math.uni-bonn.de>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 14:11:41 +0200 (CEST) 
To: xvid-devel@xvid.org
Subject: [XviD-devel] License for RELEASE 0.9


> Hi,
> 
> as you might know, the first real release is only a few hours
> away. Because we had inquiries and discussion about the use of 
> XviD in proprietary applications (and using it with Windows Media 
> Player or Adobe Premiere are alreay such cases), we were planning 
> to add the "linking through a speicfied interface" permission to GPL
> license. You can find the text here: 
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#LinkingOverControlledInterface
> 
> VfW and DShow interface should be covered by this. Permission to
> use internal API is not needed at the moment, because all video
> applications in the UNIX world I know of are GPL anyway. 
> 
> However, we need permission from all copyright holders. Can those who
> haven't answered already please say if they have objections against this? 
> 
> gruel 

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