[FFmpeg-devel] [DECISION] Project policy on closed source components
Baptiste Coudurier
baptiste.coudurier at gmail.com
Fri May 3 20:43:36 EEST 2019
> On May 3, 2019, at 1:15 AM, Paul B Mahol <onemda at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 4/28/19, Marton Balint <cus at passwd.hu> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> There has been discussion on the mailing list several times about the
>> inclusion of support for closed source components (codecs, formats,
>> filters, etc) in the main ffmpeg codebase.
>>
>> Also the removal of libNDI happened without general consensus, so a vote
>> is necessary to justify the removal.
>>
>> So here is a call to the voting committee [1] to decide on the following
>> two questions:
>>
>> 1) Should libNDI support be removed from the ffmpeg codebase?
>
> Yes, yes.
Yes
>
>>
>> 2) Should patches using closed source libraries which are not considered
>> "System Libraries" according to the GPL be rejected?
>
> Yes, yes, yes.
Yes
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Baptiste
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