Re: Licensing problems for mpeg2vidcodec
On 7/3/07, Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org> wrote:
Without consent from the copyright holders, I would say that you've got
it in one. Without a licence, it is not free software, it is not even
distributable so it cannot go into non-free either. Overall, it is
about as off-limits as OutlookExpress and just as appealing.
;-)
On 7/3/07, Thomas Jollans <thomas@jollans.com> wrote:
I don't think there is anything that gives us, the free university of Berlin,
or anyone, the right to redistribute the code. It is obvious that everyone
ignores this, but since when has the internet been good on copyright law ?
Many thanks to both of you for your replies. I actually kind of knew
(or feared) the answer of the question before asking it, but I wanted
to be sure... I will go on trying to get in touch with the authors to
clarify this, but I strongly doubt it will be effective.
Otherwise, maybe I can wrap another existing, free MPEG2 codec in an
interface similar to mpeg2vidcodec, so that it can be used by
ImageMagick to handle MPEG2 videos...
Thanks again,
François
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