[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] faad2 version 2.5 support
Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
dominik
Thu Oct 11 21:44:17 CEST 2007
On Sunday, 07 October 2007 at 09:24, Rich Felker wrote:
> 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.
After re-reading and re-thinking... you're absolutely right. Darn.
Regards,
R.
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