[MPlayer-dev-eng] [RFC] pre8: regressions, critical bugs and activities

[Diego Biurrun]

On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 09:55:03AM +0200, Ivan Kalvachev wrote:
> 2006/3/13, Roberto Togni <r_togni at tiscali.it>:
> [...]
> > To be done:
> > - upgrade internal faad to latest GPL version, there are too many files
> > unplayable with current version
> 
> We are already to the latest GPL version.

No.  We have a CVS snapshot from 20040712 while the problem was
introduced on 20050201.  xine is using a snapshot from 20040915, which
decodes all samples without problems.

> The current version of faad
> have some license that pretends to be GPL but having incompatible
> advertise clause that renders GPL invalid (confirmed by FSF).
> 
> We could:
> 1. Code the needed functionality by ourselves

Oded said he wanted to implement AAC decoding in FFmpeg, but it's a big
project and not yet started.  In the meantime Mike has begun documenting
AAC in the multimedia Wiki.  With a bit of luck we shall eventually see
AAC in FFmpeg.

> 2. Remove the adv clause and use it as pure GPL.

This is of course not possible.  You cannot simply remove parts of the
license that you don't like...

Diego