[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] libfaad update

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 10:26:32AM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 01:46:41AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 12:32:34PM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> > > despite the currently unclear license, I create a libfaad2 update patch,
> > > e.g. playing AAC Plus streams is possible with this patch.
> > > Please test it as much as possible, so we can apply it as soon as we
> > > resolved/decide what to do about their GPL-incompatible extra clause.
> > 
> > BTW, when did they make the licensing change?  IMO we should just update
> > to a snapshot from before that.
> 
> I've been out of the loop. What is the extra GPL-incoompatible clause,
> and how did they manage to add that?

** Software using this code must display the following message visibly in the
** software:
** "FAAD2 AAC/HE-AAC/HE-AACv2/DRM decoder (c) Ahead Software, www.nero.com"
** in, for example, the about-box or help/startup screen.

I'm not sure if this is GPL-compatible or not, my first impression is
that it's not.

I'll send a mail to licensing at fsf.org in a minute.

Diego