[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] faad2 version 2.5 support

[Rich Felker]

On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 02:38:31PM +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Saturday, 06 October 2007 at 02:01, Ivan Kalvachev wrote:
> > 2007/10/6, Frank Liu <gfrankliu at gmail.com>:
> > [...]
> > >
> > > If I apply my patch and rebuild ffmpeg, same command runs without any errors.
> > >
> > > Thoughts?
> 
> Your FAAD2 has been patched not to include backward compatibility APIs.
> 
> > I think your patch would break building of the older FAAD (FAAC?) versions.
> 
> Indeed.
> 
> > Some people still prefer the old version because license changes by
> > Nero rendered the library GPL incompatible.
> 
> AFAIK they're not as GPL incompatible as we thought, as long as we don't use
> FAAD code in something else than AAC decoder.

What you've just said is extremely GPL incompatible.

Rich