On Wed, 20 Mar 2019, at 16:35, Martin Vignali wrote: > > > >+ Support for the nonfree NDI protocol has been removed, it had > > > > been a common source of GPL violations. > > > > > > > This doesn't justify to break user tools (who respect the ffmpeg licence) > > > > tools who depend on a license violation are violating the license too... > > > > FFmpeg can be compile with GPL and non free component, if the build is not > redistributed. > There is no licence violation in this case.
The non-free flag was done for incompatible open source license, and used for complex compiler licensing issue. Not for obviously-closed-userland libraries. > It's not because some people doesn't respect the licence, that every user > of non free component do the same. Sorry, but that ship has sailed. Complaining over and over will not change it. > > > and remove contributor's work. > > > > Sorry, but lots of contributor work were removed over the years. A > > software lives. > > We don't talk about a contribution remove for technical reason. > But a contributor's work remove in order to try to annoy a licence > violator. Absolutely not. The work was removed because the library is 100% closed source and userland. -- Jean-Baptiste Kempf - President +33 672 704 734 _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
