[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]lavd: Remove libndi newtek

Carl Eugen Hoyos ceffmpeg at gmail.com
Mon Dec 3 18:19:50 EET 2018


2018-12-03 17:16 GMT+01:00, Gyan Doshi <gyandoshi at gmail.com>:
> On 03-12-2018 09:35 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> It appears to me that NewTek abused our willingness to add an optional
>> external nonfree library, I don't see many better options. See Ticket
>> #7589 and a blog post by a NewTek engineer confirming the issue.

I should clarify that I did not verify the issue myself, ie in theory it
could be that NewTek does not distribute non-free binaries based on
FFmpeg source code.

> What's the link to the blog post?

> Also, is anyone from Newtek on the ML - if not, is there someone we
> can invite for input?

What kind of input would seem useful to you in this case?

Carl Eugen


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