[FFmpeg-devel] Build is broken without --enable-gpl

[Mike Melanson]

Justin Ruggles wrote:
> Mike Melanson wrote:
>> With SVN 15150:
>>
>> './configure --enable-gpl && make' succeeds.
>>
>> './configure && make' fails when building ffmpeg_g. Something about
>> being unable to find eac3_decoder, referenced from allcodecs.c.
> 
> Fixed. I missed 2 things during the codec_id split.
> 
> Now E-AC-3 only builds with --enable-gpl.  Also, you can currently use
> liba52 for AC-3 and the native decoder for E-AC-3.

Thanks for jumping on this. Just curious, why is E-AC3 licensed under
GPL? Wasn't it initially developed for SoC and then finished by you?
Where did the GPL seep in?

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	-Mike Melanson