[FFmpeg-devel] [Patch] Enable gpl if enabled nonfree

Diego Biurrun diego
Sun Jan 18 18:19:20 CET 2009


On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 05:17:35PM +0000, Robert Swain wrote:
> 2009/1/18 Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de>:
> > On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 05:12:36PM +0000, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> >> Diego Biurrun <diego <at> biurrun.de> writes:
> >>
> >> > Of course the nonfree
> >> > option is incompatible with everything and the resulting binary is
> >> > nonredistributable.
> >>
> >> "Of course" for us, but as I always expected and was shown to us today, not for
> >> everybody.
> >
> > I still suspect PEBCAK because configure prints out:
> >
> > license: unredistributable
> >
> > at the end even when combining both options...
> 
> True. But maybe people do `./configure --OPTIONS && make && make
> install` and don't notice the output from configure. If no other
> license related options were allowed in conjunction with
> --enable-nonfree, it may make the license status more apparent.

Still it might make sense to just enable nonfree code without GPL code.

Diego




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