Hi guys, On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 1:55 PM Yufei He <y...@matrox.com> wrote:
> Hi > > Here is the patch for a new H.264 codec with Matrox m264 card. > I want to bring up again that this library is closed-source. I don't think FFmpeg should link to closed-source software in its public mainline version. Matrox is obviously free :-) to maintain their own modified version as long as they comply with all licensing conditions. On IRC, we just discussed the following: - --enable-nonfree was initially intended for dealing sort of roughly with incompatible opensource licenses, for example AAC encoders or GPL + LGPL-compatible-but-LGPL-incomptible libraries; - nowadays, --enable-nonfree is also used for NDI (which Kieran sent a patch to remove already) and now this. I would like to request a vote amongst frequent developers (and if you don't count me amongst that, that's fine) to decide whether closed-source software integration in general, as well as this one in particular, is OK. I don't think the system library provision applies here, since you'll be hard-pressed to find a system with Matrox hardware (it's high-$$$ enterprise stuff). Ronald _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
