Hi! On Monday 07 December 2015 07:37:21 pm Timo Rothenpieler wrote: > > On Monday 07 December 2015 03:14:08 pm Timo Rothenpieler wrote: > >> Nvidia finaly decided to put a propper MIT license on their nvenc > >> header, so it can be included, removing any external dependencies for > >> nvenc and making it no longer require the non-free flag. > > > > Please do not apply (yet)! > > > >> +NVENCSTATUS NVENCAPI NvEncodeAPICreateInstance() > > > > What is the license of the library that implements this symbol? > > > > Imo, it is not ok to simply circumvent a license issue by dynamic > > loading the library. If it were that simple, it would indicate that > > our software license can be circumvented just as easily but we were > > quite strict (and successful) about this as long as we were able to > > pursue license violators. > > > > Note that we haven't allowed this for libfaac. > > > > What are the steps to install this encoder library? Is it part of the > > Nvidia binary video driver that I use for VDPAU on Linux? Is it part > > of every Nvidia graphics driver on Windows? > > It comes with the binary nvidia driver on both Windows and Linux.
> Should fall under the system library stuff the GPL defines. I may misunderstand (I am not a native speaker) but the word "should" imo indicates that you cannot commit your patch. Sorry, Carl Eugen _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
