[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Dynamic plugins loading

[Felipe Contreras]

On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 11:19 PM, Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 03:07:15PM +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>> On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Reimar D?ffinger
>> <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> wrote:
>> > On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 01:56:30PM +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>> >> On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Reimar D?ffinger
>> >> <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> wrote:
> [...]
>> >> > So it seems really questionable to me that FFmpeg is the place that needs fixing.
>> >>
>> >> It certainly does. Even if the SONAME trick is used, and there are two
>> >> packages in Fedora, one would need to strip out all the
>> >> patent-encumbered source code.
>> >
>> > If anything below a separate "special-Fedora" source repository is not
>> > enough there's no point in discussing any further.
>>
>> It's not about Fedora, but distributions that don't want to include
>> patent encumbered code.
>
> there are no such distributions

I guess Fedora, openSUSE, Maemo and MeeGo don't count in your
definition of distribution.

http://software.opensuse.org/search?q=ffmpeg&baseproject=openSUSE:11.3&lang=en&exclude_filter=home:&exclude_debug=true
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/list/*ffmpeg*

(I just found out that openSUSE doesn't distribute FFmpeg either)

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Felipe Contreras