[FFmpeg-devel] [DECISION] Project policy on closed source components

James Almer jamrial at gmail.com
Wed May 1 16:57:09 EEST 2019


On 4/29/2019 1:34 AM, Gyan wrote:
> 
> 
> On 29-04-2019 05:37 AM, Marton Balint wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Sun, 28 Apr 2019, Marton Balint wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> There has been discussion on the mailing list several times about the
>>> inclusion of support for closed source components (codecs, formats,
>>> filters, etc) in the main ffmpeg codebase.
>>>
>>> Also the removal of libNDI happened without general consensus, so a
>>> vote is necessary to justify the removal.
>>>
>>> So here is a call to the voting committee [1] to decide on the
>>> following two questions:
>>>
>>> 1) Should libNDI support be removed from the ffmpeg codebase?
>>>
>>> 2) Should patches using closed source libraries which are not
>>> considered "System Libraries" according to the GPL be rejected?
>>
>> I revoke the vote request on the 2nd question (some invalid references
>> and ambiguity was pointed out in it), please only vote on the 1st.
>> Second question will be rephrased and submitted to a vote later, in a
>> different thread.
> 
> For those new to voting, what's the procedure?
> 
> Gyan

Reply to the first email in the thread with a yes or a no to the issue
subjected to a vote. In this case, only the 1) question.

See what Ronald did just now.


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