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diff --git a/Copyright b/Copyright deleted file mode 100644 index 61d3a03..0000000 --- a/Copyright +++ /dev/null @@ -1,78 +0,0 @@ -mpv is a fork of mplayer2, which is a fork of MPlayer. - -mpv as a whole is licensed under the GNU General Public License GPL version 2 -or later (called GPLv2+ in this document, see LICENSE.GPL for full license -text) by default. The mpv program is licensed the GNU Lesser General Public -License LGPL version 2 or later (LGPLv2.1+ in this document, see LICENSE.LGPL -for full license text) if built without using any GPL only files. -The -Dgpl=false configure switch is provided as a convenience for excluding -the GPL only files listed below from the build process. - -However, do note that the build system is provided "as is" and using the --Dgpl=false configure switch does not in itself create a LGPLv2.1+ license -grant. - -Additionally, some non-program parts, such as the documentation and some config -files listed below, are still built and licensed under their respective licenses -even when -Dgpl=false is used. Please consult GPLv2+ and LGPLv2.1+ license texts -for further details on how to distribute these files. - -Most source files are LGPLv2.1+ or GPLv2+, but some files are available under -more liberal licenses, such as BSD, MIT, ISC, and possibly others. Look at the -copyright header of each source file, and grep the sources for "Copyright" if -you need to know details. C source files without Copyright notice are usually -licensed as LGPLv2.1+. Also see the list of files with specific licenses below -(not all files can have a standard license header). - -All new contributions must be LGPLv2.1+ licensed. Using a more liberal license -compatible to LGPLv2.1+ is also ok. - -Changes done to GPL code must come with the implicit/explicit agreement that the -project can relicense the changes to LGPLv2.1+ at a later point without asking -the contributor. This is a safeguard for making potential relicensing of -remaining GPL code to LGPLv2.1+ easier. - -See DOCS/contribute.md for binding rules wrt. licensing for contributions. - -For information about authors and contributors, consult the git log, which -contains the complete SVN and CVS history as well. - -mpv can be built as LGPLv2.1+ without using any GPL only files. To add a -LGPL mode to mpv, MPlayer code had to be relicensed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+ by -asking the MPlayer authors for permission. Since permission could not be -obtained from everyone, LGPL mode disables the following features, some of them -quite central: -- Linux X11 video output -- BSD audio output via OSS -- NVIDIA/Linux hardware decoding (vdpau, although nvdec usually works) -- minor features: jack, DVD, CDDA, DVB, CACA, legacy direct3d VO -Some of these will be fixed in the future. The intended use for LGPL mode is -with libmpv, and currently it's not recommended to build mpv CLI in LGPL mode -at all. - -The following files are still GPL only (-Dgpl=false disables them): - - audio/out/ao_jack.c will stay GPL - audio/out/ao_oss.c will stay GPL - stream/dvb* must stay GPL - stream/stream_cdda.c unknown - stream/stream_dvb.* must stay GPL - stream/stream_dvdnav.c unknown - video/out/vo_caca.c unknown - video/out/vo_direct3d.c unknown - video/out/vo_vaapi.c probably impossible (some company's code) - video/out/vo_vdpau.c probably impossible (nVidia's code) - video/out/vo_x11.c probably impossible - video/out/vo_xv.c probably impossible - video/out/x11_common.* probably impossible - video/vdpau.c hard (GPL-only parts must be ifdefed) - video/vdpau.h unknown - video/vdpau_mixer.* actual code must be rewritten - DOCS/man/ GPLv2+ - etc/mplayer-input.conf unknown license, probably GPLv2+ - etc/mpv.desktop unknown license, probably GPLv2+ - etc/restore-old-bindings.conf unknown license, probably GPLv2+ - -None of the cases listed above affect the final binary if it's built as -LGPL. Linked libraries still can affect the final license (for example if -FFmpeg was built as GPL). |