[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] configure: accept commercially-licensed libx264

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Ramiro Polla <ramiro.polla <at> gmail.com> writes:

> libx264 can be built with --disable-gpl, to be used with a commercial
> license, which will export X264_GPL as 0 in their config file.
> Attached patch makes configure accept that.

Could you explain the use-case for this change?
Why would somebody prefer a shipped version of x264 (that I would expect to come
without headers) over the free version that we support?

Carl Eugen