[x264-devel] Re: x264 improvement

[Tim Greatrex]

I'm guessing the issue may be that he has worked on this in his spare  
time, while he works for a company that develops a different codec  
which it then sells (so x264 is classed as the competition). I  
doesn't sound like there are any legal issues with the code he's  
developed, but maybe moral issues for his position within his day-job.

As a mac user (who is very new to c and at the moment can't make head- 
nor-tail of the x264 code (though it works great!), let alone altivec  
optimisations) it would be great if you could make it available,  
especially with some good annotations describing what does what if  
possible, so that myself and people like Firas can learn from you.


Tim Greatrex

On 13 Mar 2006, at 18:20, Firas Al-Tahan wrote:

> Hey,
>
> if it means anything David, I think all PPC owners working with x264
> would really appreicate your efforts.
>
> I don't claim to have a full knowledge of the GPL - but as Benjamin
> Larsson said - I can't see where there'd be a problem - especially if
> it was coded on a home computer in your own free time.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Firas
>
> On 3/13/06, David Wolstencroft <lordrpi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I didn't look at the to field before sending, an incredibly bad
>> mistake by me.
>>
>> This x264 build resides on my home computer only. I mainly fiddled
>> around with the Altivec to get better with the technology and have
>> been able to boost performance of the x264 builds on my home
>> computer. Since then my duties have changed as I have become more
>> involved with software engineering, so I'm afraid of it being looked
>> at as competition.
>>
>> - David
>>
>>
>> On Mar 13, 2006, at 5:03 AM, Benjamin Larsson wrote:
>>
>>> David Wolstencroft wrote:
>>>
>>>> Eric,
>>>>
>>>> I might have mentioned before that I have some faster altivec code
>>>> for the G4/G5, yet I'm a bit nervous to incorporate it due to my
>>>> employer. If you would like to add it "silently", that would be
>>>> great.
>>>>
>>>> - David
>>>
>>> Well first if you were coding this under working hours then your
>>> employer owns the code, which means that if this is added  
>>> silently the
>>> code isn't really free just added without the knowledge of the  
>>> owner.
>>> But then we have the GPL aspect, if the code is distributed to
>>> someone,
>>> they have a right to get the source under the GPL and they can
>>> redistribute it as they see fit.  On the other hand if you did  
>>> this in
>>> your freetime and just don't want you employer to know that you
>>> contributed some code I guess it is up to the maintainer if your
>>> contribution is accepted. I wouldn't object in such a case.
>>>
>>> MvH
>>> Benjamin Larsson
>>>
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