[FFmpeg-devel] [FFmpeg-cvslog] configure: libnpp is always nonfree, even with LGPL

Carl Eugen Hoyos ceffmpeg at gmail.com
Tue Feb 19 23:17:34 EET 2019


2017-03-15 23:56 GMT+01:00, Ricardo Constantino <git at videolan.org>:
> ffmpeg | branch: master | Ricardo Constantino <wiiaboo at gmail.com> | Wed Mar
> 15 22:47:58 2017 +0000| [b409d8d4a276490cd67255fd4230ea0954bd8c50] |
> committer: James Almer
>
> configure: libnpp is always nonfree, even with LGPL
>
> libnpp was erroneously grouped up with libfdk-aac and openssl
> to check if --enable-nonfree wasn't passed only with --enable-gpl
> in 9f28db47accb31bfec40a56dd2dc19ffd366a6be. The latter two
> are compatible with LGPL, libnpp is not.

Why?
This commit message may give the impression that the LGPL is
compatible with libfdk and openssl because they are open-source
libraries, but in fact the LGPL is compatible with everything, that's
its whole point, no?

Carl Eugen


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