Diego Biurrun <[email protected]> added the comment: On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 01:57:23PM +0000, mig wrote: > > mig <[email protected]> added the comment: > > Thanks for the details. > > > It was never GPL, but claimed to be LGPL in the past. However, > > this was never true. Half the files are nonfree, thus making all of > > libfaac nonfree. > > http://www.audiocoding.com/faac.html > > Correct, it's claimed to be LGPL not GPL. > > Anyway, that is indeed a problem. Even if i download faac from this > www.audiocoding.com site, it still says it's LGPL.
I'm not sure if I'm misunderstanding you or not, but audiocoding.com does not say that FAAC is LGPL. Quoting the webpage: FAAC is based on the original ISO MPEG reference code. The changes to this code are licensed under the LGPL license. The original license is not compatible with the LGPL, please be aware of this when using FAAC. The original license text can be found in the README file included in the download package. Half of the code is nonfree and not LGPL-compatible. Now if this paragraph is not clear to you, then I could get Menno to update it. How did you understand it? > Do you suggest a fix there ? like purchasing a license from someone who really > owns this faac code. I have talked with Menno Bakker, the original author, there is no fix. We are working on an AAC encoder for FFmpeg. You could try sponsoring work on it to get it finished sooner. > >I cannot find any source code on your site. > > The sources for ConvertHelper are at > http://www.downloadhelper.net/convert-helper.tar.gz as mentioned in the > README.txt > > Concerning FFmpeg sources, i have absolutely no problem hosting those files on > my servers, but it is my understanding that as i deliver an unmodified version > of this program, it is better to link to an official way to get the sources > (through SVN) instead of providing a static source package that is already > obsolete. This is a very common misconception, but it is completely false. You have to provide the exact same sources that you used to build FFmpeg yourself. Think of it as making it as easy as possible to replace your compiled FFmpeg with a version modified to just fix a single bug or typo. Also, ffmpeg.org might go away. Diego _____________________________________________________ FFmpeg issue tracker <[email protected]> <https://roundup.ffmpeg.org/roundup/ffmpeg/issue1096> _____________________________________________________
