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authorDiego Biurrun <diego@biurrun.de>2007-07-13 14:33:20 +0000
committerDiego Biurrun <diego@biurrun.de>2007-07-13 14:33:20 +0000
commit0f69ca7f143bbe143a8bdc31240bfc563452874a (patch)
tree7bfa7ee20fe4aaa0ed5b55d2e81d18027a0cd2ff
parent63e24954beb7a7b6528ea830b6f224f19083f5f6 (diff)
downloadffmpeg-0f69ca7f143bbe143a8bdc31240bfc563452874a.tar.gz
Clarify license requirements for contributions.
Originally committed as revision 9626 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
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diff --git a/doc/ffmpeg-doc.texi b/doc/ffmpeg-doc.texi
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--- a/doc/ffmpeg-doc.texi
+++ b/doc/ffmpeg-doc.texi
@@ -1551,6 +1551,11 @@ should also be avoided if they don't make the code easier to understand.
@enumerate
@item
+ Contributions should be licensed under the LGPL 2.1, including an
+ "or any later version" clause, or the MIT license. GPL 2 including
+ an "or any later version" clause is also acceptable, but LGPL is
+ preferred.
+@item
You must not commit code which breaks FFmpeg! (Meaning unfinished but
enabled code which breaks compilation or compiles but does not work or
breaks the regression tests)