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From: | Sam Geeraerts |
Subject: | Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Is VLC free? |
Date: | Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:15:03 +0200 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090711) |
crap0101 schreef:
Il giorno lun, 17/08/2009 alle 23.16 +0930, Karl Goetz ha scritto:On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:13:38 +0200 address@hidden wrote:Hi everyone,I'm checking ubuntu hardy's vlc source at http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/v/vlc/vlc_0.8.6.release.e+x264svn20071224+faad2.6.1[...],ubuntu 3.3 version, for freedom, and i wonder if the file modules/stream_out/transrate/putvlc.h in the tarball is free. It contains lots of binaries for which i cannot say what they're doing.Could someone help us understanding what is it for? Note: this file comes from the MPEG Software Simulation Group.ChristopheLike Ted said, i think is for mpeg encoding. It seems taken from ISO/IEC 13818-2 DIS.
From what I remember from image processing class this kind of arrays is normal for JPEG/MPEG stuff. I don't think we need to worry about blobs here.
I can't find ``putvlc.c''; the only file where putvlc.h is included is ``block.c''.
And in frame.c. There is no putvlc.c because this is just a bunch of definitions that don't require an implementation.
Is there a licence for the file or just a disclaimer of warranty? :| kkno, there's this copyright notice only: /* Copyright (C) 1996, MPEG Software Simulation Group. All Rights Reserved. */
I can't find anything useful about 13818-2 DIS Annex B except for code of free software projects. Any volunteers for asking the VLC guys about where they got it and why they think it can be used in free software?
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