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Binary package hint: faac
From: Jason Garrett-Glaser <[email protected]>
Subject: [RFC] Libfaac not LGPL?
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel
To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:45:37 -0700
Reply-To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches
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We had some discussions on #ffmpeg-devel and I asked the folks at #gnu
about this:
http://faac.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/faac/faac/libfaac/tns.c?r1=1.8&r2=1.9
It appears that libfaac, despite declaring itself LGPL2.1, contains
quite a few licenses... many of which are completely incompatible with
the LGPL, such as the above.
In theory, it still may be legal to distribute, as the LGPL linking
exception *may* cover the linking of .c files with non-free licenses
with .c files that have free licenses. However, either way, this
places FAAC squarely under non-GPL territory... such that ffmpeg
should require --enable-nonfree to link to it.
See thread at
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel/89985
** Affects: faac (Ubuntu)
Importance: High
Status: Triaged
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Libfaac not LGPL
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/374900
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