[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] dynload for libfaac

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Mo, Mar 01, 2010 at 18:05:11 (CET), Ronald S. Bultje wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Reinhard Tartler <siretart at tauware.de> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 12:10 AM, Gianluigi Tiesi <mplayer at netfarm.it> wrote:
>>>> since libfaac cannot be linked in ffmpeg, I've made a patch similar
>>>> to faadbin,
>>> [..]
>>>> I've removed at all the previous way to use libfaac, since it's not
>>>> redistributable
>>>
>>> Eh... And how does this change it?
>>
>> It would enable shipping a libavcodec.so binary that runs without
>> requiring that libfaac.so is available. This allows the two libraries
>> being distributed by different distribution channels/distributors.
>
> It wouldn't change the license of FFmpeg compiled with Faac support;
> it's still undistributable.

I think we had this a disagreement several times by now. Can we pretty
please agree to disagree on that? Distros like debian and ubuntu seems
to be fine with that.

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Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4