[XviD-devel] License. GPL or restricted?
Andreas Metzler
ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org
Sun May 23 18:46:00 CEST 2004
Hello,
Freshmeat.net says xvid is GPL, however ./src/image/reduced.c says:
* Under section 8 of the GNU General Public License, the copyright
* holders of XVID explicitly forbid distribution in the following
* countries:
*
* - Japan
* - United States of America
Is this just a forgotten notice, or does it apply? I wonder, because
this notice is rather old (2002) and there are more recent
contributions by Pascal Massimino licensed under vanilla GPL without
the additional restriction.
thanks, cu andreas
PS: This is the 2nd try to send this messages, my first one last
monday got dropped somewhere.
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