On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 4:27 PM Gyan Doshi <ffm...@gyani.pro> wrote: > > > > On 2021-05-25 18:40, Nicolas George wrote: > > Zhislina, Victoria (12021-05-25): > >> While you are right that IPP is not GPL based and is closed source > >> currently (but free for any commercial usage) and therefore does > >> require --enable-nonfree, > >> I'm sorry to mention that you are not right about "doing the same but > >> faster". If you read my commit message you could see that it: > >> Introduces superscaling interpolation method for video downscale. > >> Adds antialiasing option to linear, cubic and lanczos interpolation. > >> > >> Moreover, IPP has 100-s of functions that could be added to ffmeg > >> processing in the future. > >> One more thing to mention - when you say "one single platform" it is > >> x86 that undoubtedly covers top part of video processing market. Such > >> filter creation request comes from one of the top ISVs in this market. > > So, are you working on getting this library GPL-compatible? Notify us > > once it's done. > > > > But there is no way we will accept code for a non-libre library coming > > from the company that made the library in the first place. That would be > > allowing freeloaders. > > Put it to a vote instead of one or a few developers declaring it NAK. >
No developer has even proposed an actual counter argument yet (except the submitter, of course), so there hasn't even been disagreement, which would be the basis for a vote. External libraries should be put under extra scrutiny, because in many cases they don't necessarily serve the project - perhaps even the opposite as it can slow down work on the native component in favor of the external one being used. This can have the effect that such a contribution does not benefit FFmpeg in the long run, and only benefits the (paying) customers of company X that requested the inclusion. - Hendrik _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-devel-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".
