Hello, Thanks for your comments.
On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 10:03 AM Jean-Baptiste Kempf <j...@videolan.org> wrote: > Why do something special for homebrew, and not for all the other > distributions? > Why is homebrew different? Are you going to merge all .spec files from all > Linux distributions too? I don't think it's really productive to talk about other Linux distributions in this thread. That is really a different topic. > > That creates a bit of a messy situation, as users are expecting to be > > able to build ffmpeg with additional libraries, including nonfree ones > > such as fdk-aac. This is no longer easily doable. > > Helping people to build non-free distributions of FFmpeg is a very weird and > dubious goal. > This is just helping other people violate the FFmpeg license. That is a matter of personal viewpoint contrasted with general opinion about non-free FFmpeg, which I am 1) probably not the right person to discuss with, given my lack of presence on this mailing list and 2) the fact that the proposed formula simply mirrors what is already possible. I may be missing the full picture or developer consensus about how to handle this. I understand that there are folks who are very passionate about this topic, and that others are not. I can only observe that end users have the technical possibilities to build FFmpeg in a non-free and non-redistributable fashion. I don't see why it would be necessary to artificially restrict users in doing so. > Do not use Github to develop. Github is not-free. Use Github to mirror, if > you want, but not to develop. This formula could of course be mirrored from git.ffmpeg.org or wherever if there were a policy of not developing on GitHub. That said, I do see other repos on https://github.com/FFmpeg that are not mirrored, so I assume there is no such rule. Werner _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
