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

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

On Sun, 24 Mar 2019, at 18:50, Marton Balint wrote:
> > - do we want to keep any components requiring linking with non-system,
> > closed-source software? (this might or might not include blackmagic)
> >
> > or some other variant that also includes system software like nvidia stuff?
> > Or ask a simple yes/no for each component separately? (Although that
> > wouldn't set a more general policy.)
> 
> I prefer votes on a case by case basis, because it is hard to categorize 
> closed source components. 

I disagree.
First you should vote for the global concept of non-hardware closed source libraries.
It will avoid doing 20 votes for each time this action will come.

> (ok, maybe not NDI, but for 
> M264/Nvidia/Blackmagic it is definitely not trivial).

Those are hardware based libraries, done to access hardware.
They are very easy to differentiate from non-hardware libraries.

And then, you can do a vote on a per-case basis, if there is a dubious case.

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