On 26.02.2019 21:36, Soft Works wrote:
From: Jean-Baptiste Kempf
Sent: Dienstag, 26. Februar 2019 15:01
[...]
I don't think nvcc fit the"normally distributed with the operating system".
I'm not sure if the role of nvcc has been fully understood.
nvcc is some kind of 'pre-compiler' which is
> From: Jean-Baptiste Kempf
> Sent: Dienstag, 26. Februar 2019 23:07
> To: ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org
> Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/5] configure: Add an explicit check and
> option for nvcc
>
> On Tue, 26 Feb 2019, at 21:26, Soft Works wrote:
> > It's an exte
On Tue, 26 Feb 2019, at 21:36, Soft Works wrote:
> I'm not sure if the role of nvcc has been fully understood.
> nvcc is some kind of 'pre-compiler' which is not distributed or linked to.
>
> Distributing GPL code that was compiled with MSVC doesn't require the
> MSVC compiler to be open source as
On Tue, 26 Feb 2019, at 21:26, Soft Works wrote:
> It's an external and separate executable. It is not a violation of
> the GPL if ffmpeg checks for existence and executes that in a separate
> process.
Believing that executing in a separate process removes the obligation of the
GPL is an very-muc
> From: Jean-Baptiste Kempf
> Sent: Dienstag, 26. Februar 2019 15:01
>
> [...]
>
> I don't think nvcc fit the"normally distributed with the operating system".
I'm not sure if the role of nvcc has been fully understood.
nvcc is some kind of 'pre-compiler' which is not distributed or linked to.
Di
> From a technical standpoint, this whole series looks fine to me.
>
> However, it really does not fell non-nonfree to me that the only way to
> build these filters remains to register with nvidia, accept their
> various EULAs and download their SDK for nvcc and the libs around it.
>
> Even moving
Hello,
On Tue, 26 Feb 2019, at 14:51, Timo Rothenpieler wrote:
> > Note that, unlike the cuda_sdk dependency, using nvcc to compile
> > a kernel does not cause a build to become non-free. Although nvcc
> > is distributed with the cuda sdk, and is EULA encumbered, the
> > compilation process we use
On 21.02.2019 04:57, Philip Langdale wrote:
The use of nvcc to compile cuda kernels is distinct from the use of
cuda sdk libraries and linking against those libraries. We have
previously not bothered to distinguish these two cases because all
the filters that used cuda kernels also used the sdk.
The use of nvcc to compile cuda kernels is distinct from the use of
cuda sdk libraries and linking against those libraries. We have
previously not bothered to distinguish these two cases because all
the filters that used cuda kernels also used the sdk. In the following
changes, I'm going to remove
