On Thursday, January 06, 2011, Ton Roosendaal wrote: > Hi devs, > > Please advise. I recall libavcodec is quite old already, and probably > obsolete mostly because of FFmpg? > > -Ton- > > > From: Carl Eugen Hoyos > > Date: 6 January, 2011 17:15:37 GMT+01:00 > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Copyright violation distributing faac binaries together > > with GPL software > > > > I downloaded blender-2.49b-windows, it contains libavcodec.dll, a > > binary distribution of libavcodec. The dll contains code from x264, > > making it GPL (and not LGPL). It also contains code from the libfaac > > project. > > Originally, libfaac claimed to be free software (under the LGPL), > > but unfortunately, this was never true: libfaac is (and always has > > been) proprietary software.
I'm not sure where he is getting this from. There is no libfaac dll shipped in the zip archive, and the dll deos not appear to be statically linked with libfaac. reu...@subterfuge ~ $ strings avcodec-52.dll | grep aac aac_main aac_low aac_ssr aac_ltp Read beyond end of ff_aac_codebook_vectors[%d][]. index %d >= %d jaac faacDecInit2 failed r:%d sr:%ld ch:%ld s:%d faac: codec init failed. faac: frame decoding failed: %s aac_adtstoasc aac_adtstoasc_bsf aac_decoder aac_encoder aac_parser ff_aac_ac3_parse ff_aac_codebook_vectors ff_aac_coders ff_aac_kbd_long_1024 ff_aac_kbd_short_128 ff_aac_num_swb_1024 ff_aac_num_swb_128 ff_aac_parse_header ff_aac_pow2sf_tab ff_aac_pred_sfb_max ff_aac_psy_model ff_aac_scalefactor_bits ff_aac_scalefactor_code ff_aac_spectral_bits ff_aac_spectral_codes ff_aac_spectral_sizes I believe all of those strings are comming from the ffmpeg codebase. On _MY_ system where I compiled ffmpeg with libfaac: reu...@subterfuge ~ $ less /usr/lib64/libavcodec.so.52 Dynamic section at offset 0x69e848 contains 47 entries: Tag Type Name/Value [ ... ] 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libfaac.so.0] -Reuben _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
