Am Mo., 13. Mai 2019 um 22:18 Uhr schrieb James Almer <jamr...@gmail.com>:
>
> On 5/13/2019 5:13 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> > Am Mo., 13. Mai 2019 um 22:10 Uhr schrieb Marton Balint <c...@passwd.hu>:
> >>
> >> On Sun, 28 Apr 2019, Marton Balint wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi All,
> >>>
> >>> There has been discussion on the mailing list several times about the
> >>> inclusion of support for closed source components (codecs, formats,
> >>> filters, etc) in the main ffmpeg codebase.
> >>>
> >>> Also the removal of libNDI happened without general consensus, so a vote
> >>> is necessary to justify the removal.
> >>>
> >>> So here is a call to the voting committee [1] to decide on the following
> >>> two questions:
> >>>
> >>> 1) Should libNDI support be removed from the ffmpeg codebase?
> >>>
> >>
> >> Thanks for the votes, I counted 9 yes, 5 no, so majority is for removal of
> >> libNDI, which is already done.
> >
> > The vote was not about the removal from libndi from release branches?
>
> No, features on releases are frozen, as changing them can result in
> breakages for distros and package managers.

We have broken distros and packages before, we would not break it
in this case;-)

> We have removed tons of
> libraries before and it's always limited to git master.

None of them had to be removed because the authors chose to
violate our copyright (and refused to fix the copyright violation)
so we decided to stop endorsing them.

> The vote was to make the removal official

Sorry, but I find this interpretation extremely difficult from the quote above,

Carl Eugen
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