[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] faad2 version 2.5 support, second try

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 12:12:11PM +0200, Vadim Lebedev wrote:
> Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 06:06:44PM -0700, Frank Liu wrote:
> >   
> >> Problem:
> >>
> >> With faad2 version 2.5 and current ffmpeg, if you use
> >> --enable-libfaadbin when building ffmpeg, the compilation seems to
> >> complete fine, but but when you try to run it, it gives errors:
> >>     
> > [...]
> >   
> >> Solution:
> >>
> >> Thanks to several people on this devel list, especially Dominik who
> >> has been with me in the last thread, I come up with a new patch:
> >>     
> >
> > ffmpeg is used by GPL applications and i would like to keep ffmpeg linkable
> > with GPL applications
> >
> > this patch and all possible variations of it are rejected
> >
> > if you want support for more advanced AAC features in ffmpeg, please
> > look at the AAC spec and write a free decoder
> >
> > [...]
> >   
> >   
> 
> Michael,
> 
> I don't see how the above mentionned patch changes the GPL compatibility
> status of ffmpeg.
> 
> Please can you explain what i'm missing?

faad2 is not GPL compatible
any program (ffmpeg or otherwise) including faad2 can thus not be GPL
compatible either

[...]

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