On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 8:48 PM Paul B Mahol <one...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 12/3/18, Jan Ekström <jee...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 6:06 PM Carl Eugen Hoyos <ceffm...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> Hi! > >> > >> It appears to me that NewTek abused our willingness to add an optional > >> external nonfree library, I don't see many better options. See Ticket > >> #7589 and a blog post by a NewTek engineer confirming the issue. > >> > >> Patch untested. > >> > >> Please comment, Carl Eugen > > > > On the general idea of this - agreed. > > > > Separately I think we should at least bring up a possible rethink of > > our policy about non-open source nonfree components. > > > > If it's: > > - Not part of the OS > > or > > - Not open source > > > > ...maybe we should not include such a component upstream? > > Yes, remove all hardware stuff +1.
That's something different, though. - dxva2 and d3d11va are Windows APIs, thus fall under "OS" - VT on mac/iOS does the same - vaapi and the kernel API seem to be compatible with GPL (at least currently), so they would stay. - out of similar things such as NDI, SRT seems to be open source now? Jan _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
