Am 27.11.2014 14:29 schrieb "Jean-Baptiste Kempf" <j...@videolan.org>: > > On 26 Nov, Nicolas George wrote : > > Le sextidi 6 frimaire, an CCXXIII, Hendrik Leppkes a écrit : > > > Thats just wrong. There is not one line of proprietary/non-free code that > > > gets included or linked in libavcodec. > > > > (IANAL) > > > > I do not think it works that way. You could apply the same reasoning when > > linking a proprietary software with a GPL shared library and deduce that it > > is ok to distribute the resulting binary: this is not the usual doctrine. > > Unfortunately, I have to agree with Nicolas. > > This is the reason why the MingW and Wine projects reimplemented all the > headers based on the MSDN documentation. Because using non-free headers > is very debatable and usually considered as not ok by US lawyers (and > nVidia is a US company)
Since you brought mingw up.. Wouldn't that then also mean that every binary build by MSVC using Microsoft's headers is non-free as a result? Otherwise the comparison seems slightly flawed. _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
