On Thu, 10 Jun 2010, Jacob Meuser wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 10:07:06PM +0200, David Coppa wrote:
> > On Wed, 09 Jun 2010, Jacob Meuser wrote:
> > 
> > > please update the license marker as well if you're going to do this.
> > 
> > Updated diff following. I don't understand why ffmpeg needs gplv3 
> > since opencore-amr has an Apache 2.0 license.. 
> 
> probably that whole anti-patent thing.
> 
> ffmpeg has had amr support for years, btw.  it was never enabled in
> the port because the source of the source files, and thus the actual
> distribution terms, was not 100% known (as in, good chance it was
> copied from completely non-free code).  I wonder if opencore-amr
> really changes the situation, or if they are just trying to use a
> license that adds more confusion to the situation/makes people
> think they're "protected".

$ cat 
ports/pobj/opencore-amr-0.1.2/opencore-amr-0.1.2/opencore/codecs_v2/audio/gsm_amr/patent_disclaimer.txt

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