[FFmpeg-devel] Mpeg4 audio in TS

Nico Sabbi Nicola.Sabbi
Fri Apr 18 15:48:44 CEST 2008


On Friday 18 April 2008 15:26:41 Luca Barbato wrote:
> Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> > Firstly, the way the GPL works this question is not decided by
> > the GPL but by the lawmakers and judges, they are the only ones
> > deciding on that.
>
> It's just a flame, defining LGPL parasite friendly caused me to
> extend the concept: by using and not contributing back you are
> behaving like a parasite, LGPL allows you to just use a library
> (not changing it) pretty much as you use a gpl program w/out
> changing it.
>
> I do not want to convince anybody to do anything he doesn't want
> with his code, I'm grateful it's shared so I can use it. I just
> found rude the idea of considering the LGPL parasite friendly.
>
> lu

but in the grand scheme if you contribute something to an OSS project
(e.g. mplayer, ffmpeg, etc. ) you can't be considered a parasite
overall




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