[FFmpeg-devel] [Patch] Enable gpl if enabled nonfree

Robert Swain robert.swain
Sun Jan 18 18:17:35 CET 2009


2009/1/18 Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de>:
> On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 05:12:36PM +0000, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
>> Diego Biurrun <diego <at> biurrun.de> writes:
>>
>> > Of course the nonfree
>> > option is incompatible with everything and the resulting binary is
>> > nonredistributable.
>>
>> "Of course" for us, but as I always expected and was shown to us today, not for
>> everybody.
>
> I still suspect PEBCAK because configure prints out:
>
> license: unredistributable
>
> at the end even when combining both options...

True. But maybe people do `./configure --OPTIONS && make && make
install` and don't notice the output from configure. If no other
license related options were allowed in conjunction with
--enable-nonfree, it may make the license status more apparent.

Regards,
Rob




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