Licensing of gmerlin-avdecoder regression tests

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 11:12:29 (CEST), Burkhard Plaum wrote:

>>
>> More troublesome, but maybe also more difficult to solve, I discovered
>> that some source files are licensed as 4-clause BSD which is
>> incompatible with GPLv2.
>>
>> These are the files I found containing 4-clause BSD licensing:
>>
>> lib/os.c (at line 93)
>> include/bgav_sem.h
>> lib/base64.c
>
> As IOhannes already mentioned, all stuff except lib/base64.c are
> fallbacks for non-Posix systems (mainly windows).
>
> We'll try to get GPLed base64 routines.

Just a suggestion, the gnulib contains a lot of portability functions
that can be copied into your codebase:

http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/MODULES.html#module=base64

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=blob;f=lib/base64.c;h=4939ce749a5e7c84afd286f871582ee30f298c3b;hb=c5728261c324a75f8d23dd7d10cb42dde9420227


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