On Wed, Aug 02, 2023 at 03:46:29PM +0000, Cosmin Stejerean wrote: > > > > On Aug 2, 2023, at 7:30 AM, Nicolas George <geo...@nsup.org> wrote: > > > > Michael Niedermayer (12023-08-02): > >> The libraries should be split into runtime loadable plugins > >> Not only would that make tools alot smaller it also would allow > >> development of code available in ffmpeg that is maintained outside > >> FFmpeg. > >> > >> I suggested this previosuly, it is of course not a "simple" thing > >> to do. > > > > No, it would be a terrible mistake. > > > > And mostly, people who suggest or demand that do it based on > > misconceptions about how linking works and/or have no actual scenario > > where that would help. > > > > But this is another discussion entirely. > > This indeed feels like a separate discussion, but should we want to have that > discussion I'd be happy to both provide some use cases as well as contribute > code to facilitate the implementation. >
> My understanding however is that the community is opposed to dynamically > loaded plugins on principle, because it would make it easier to distribute > proprietary plugins and sidestep the intent of the copyleft licensing. I dont know if there is opposition or just inertia and more sexy things to work on but if theres fear of proprietary plugins just do this: 1. give the plugin a license field 2. check that the license field matches a GPL compatible license before loading thx [...] -- Michael GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them. -- Plutarch
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