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

[Jason Garrett-Glaser]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 11:45:34PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 05:17:35PM +0000, Robert Swain wrote:
>> > 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.
>>
>> why dont you rename --enable-nonfree to --enable-nonredistributable ?
>
> Do others agree that this will reduce the confusion?

IMO it's a rather overly long configure option.  Futhermore, it's
generally annoying to change configure options (because people will
spend the next 2 years complaining in #ffmpeg because all the guides
on the internet are now wrong...)

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