[FFmpeg-devel] RTMPE support

[Måns Rullgård]

Reimar D?ffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> writes:

> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:07:19AM -0700, Howard Chu wrote:
>> Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
>> >On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 03:20:29AM -0700, Howard Chu wrote:
>> >>librtmp is LGPL.
>> >
>> >I don't think so.
>> >It includes openssl/ssl.h unconditionally which at least on my system includes e.g. this:
>> >>* 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
>> >>*    must display the following acknowledgement:
>> >and thus AFAICT is GPL-incompatible.
>> >Thus librtmp can not be LGPL, and a --enable-gpl FFmpeg linked
>> >against this would be non-redistributable (for Linux system maybe
>> >you could claim the system library exception in the GPL, but at
>> >least Windows binary with librtmp for all I can tell would be a
>> >huge issue).
>> 
>> On Windows we don't ship the OpenSSL code. It's dynamically linked
>> and we tell users to install it themselves from here
>
> Uh, the code included ssl.h so sure you ship OpenSSL code.
> Hopefully only non-copyrightable parts, but it's still OpenSSL code.

The copyright issue is further watered down by the fact that gnutls
implements a subset of the openssl API.  Provided nothing from the
header files (e.g. inline functions) makes it into the object code,
claiming the binaries to be derived from one or the other is ridiculous.

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