[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] News: Removal of libndi

Jean-Baptiste Kempf jb at videolan.org
Thu Mar 21 15:46:00 EET 2019


On Thu, 21 Mar 2019, at 12:29, Maksym Veremeyenko wrote:
> >> when do you plan to remove nVidia and BlackmagicDesign parts that is
> >> /closed source and userland/ ?
> > 
> > 0) addressing me directly like that is unfair, and unjust;
> 
> i just extrapolated your main statement *The work was removed because

So extrapolation. So basically, you put words in my mouth that I did not say.
Just to smear at me. Very nice and fair.

> > notably when NDI was not removed by me.
> 
> you supported it

And I explained why. Many times.
With legal arguments; not with "you do that because you don't like this company" or "you do that because you don't like me".

> [...]
> > 3b)
> > Decklink headers are open source, but are normally distributed in a package that is not open-source.
> > Whether the license of the headers is stronger than the package license is not clear. It is also not clear if someone who agreed to the package license can redistribute those headers to the other people?
> 
> GPL code that runtime load close-source proprietary library...

Please start reading the arguments instead of twisting them and start reading the GPL.
I suggest the end of paragraph 3, about the exception for libraries.

NDI is not addressing system libraries and drivers. The exception does not hold for them.

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