[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] faad2 version 2.5 support, second try

[Måns Rullgård]

Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 12:12:11PM +0200, Vadim Lebedev wrote:
>> Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 06:06:44PM -0700, Frank Liu wrote:
>> >
>> >> Problem:
>> >>
>> >> With faad2 version 2.5 and current ffmpeg, if you use
>> >> --enable-libfaadbin when building ffmpeg, the compilation seems to
>> >> complete fine, but but when you try to run it, it gives errors:
>> >>
>> > [...]
>> >
>> >> Solution:
>> >>
>> >> Thanks to several people on this devel list, especially Dominik who
>> >> has been with me in the last thread, I come up with a new patch:
>> >>
>> >
>> > ffmpeg is used by GPL applications and i would like to keep ffmpeg linkable
>> > with GPL applications
>> >
>> > this patch and all possible variations of it are rejected
>> >
>> > if you want support for more advanced AAC features in ffmpeg, please
>> > look at the AAC spec and write a free decoder
>> >
>> > [...]
>> >
>> >
>>
>> Michael,
>>
>> I don't see how the above mentionned patch changes the GPL compatibility
>> status of ffmpeg.
>>
>> Please can you explain what i'm missing?
>
> faad2 is not GPL compatible
> any program (ffmpeg or otherwise) including faad2 can thus not be GPL
> compatible either

If only the only API differences from GPL versions are trivial renames,
I can't see how dlopening a non-GPL version could be an issue.  Maybe
it is not legal to distribute core dumps from the resulting process
image (and even this is doubtful), but that would hardly be a problem.

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