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

[James Almer]

On 5/13/2019 5:13 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> Am Mo., 13. Mai 2019 um 22:10 Uhr schrieb Marton Balint <cus at passwd.hu>:
>>
>> 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?
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for the votes, I counted 9 yes, 5 no, so majority is for removal of
>> libNDI, which is already done.
> 
> The vote was not about the removal from libndi from release branches?

No, features on releases are frozen, as changing them can result in
breakages for distros and package managers. We have removed tons of
libraries before and it's always limited to git master.

The vote was to make the removal official, as stated in the first email
quoted above, since some people were not happy it was done without a
formal vote.