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

[Ivan Kalvachev]

2007/10/12, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik at rangers.eu.org>:
> On Friday, 12 October 2007 at 01:34, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 08, 2007, Michael Niedermayer wrote :
> > > > >> With faad2 version 2.5 and current ffmpeg, if you use
> >
> > > faad2 is not GPL compatible
> > > any program (ffmpeg or otherwise) including faad2 can thus not be GPL
> > > compatible either
> >
> > Just to tell you know, if some people are interested, that FAAD 2.6 is
> > out, and from the news annoucement:
> >
> > "Other news is the little change in the copyright header and the readme
> > of FAAD2. Apparantly a lot of projects were troubled about the extra
> > requirement that the old header asked for. The FSF looked at this and
> > said that with some minor change the text can be seen as clarification
> > of section 2c of the GPLv2. I advise all projects using FAAD2 to update
> > to this new package (or CVS), I guess there's nothing to be worried
> > about anymore."
> >
> > However, looking at the headers, I don't see exactly in what this is
> > more GPL compatible than before, but a lot of people might know better
> > than I do.
>
> Hm indeed there's a small change in the clause:
> --- README.2.5  2007-10-12 00:30:28.000000000 +0200
> +++ README.2.6  2007-10-11 20:41:49.000000000 +0200
> @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
>  **
>  ** Software using this code must display the following message visibly in or
>  ** on each copy of the software:
> -** "FAAD2 AAC/HE-AAC/HE-AACv2/DRM decoder (c) Nero AG, www.nero.com"
> +** "Code from FAAD2 is copyright (c) Nero AG, www.nero.com"
>  ** in, for example, the about-box or help/startup screen.
>  **
>  ** Commercial non-GPL licensing of this software is possible.

That's improvement.
However there is still something that troubles me.
The GPL clauses talks with if's. IF your programs runs interactively ,
exception IF it doesn't normaly print such announcemnts.
However the Nero "clarification" is much more imperative, it "MUST".

I wouldn't jump on that horse yet. I'd like to hear from FSF that
everything is ok first.