[FFmpeg-devel] Google Summer of Code 2010 is coming

[Jason Garrett-Glaser]

On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 1:52 AM, Alex Converse <alex.converse at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 4:30 AM, Jason Garrett-Glaser
> <darkshikari at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Lastly, anyone working on ffmpeg who complaints about NIH syndrome and
>> reinventing the wheel is an absurd hypocrite. ?ffmpeg's entire history
>> is filled with reinventions of the wheel: the native vorbis decoder
>> (and oh god, encoder), the native AAC encoder (why not fix the one
>> file with license problems in FAAC and make it better?), AMR-NB
>> (opencore already supports it), and so forth. ?ffmpeg is covered with
>> capabilities, both major and minor, that were implemented first
>> somewhere else under a compatible license. ?But since ffmpeg doesn't
>> like dependencies, we re-implement them.
>>
>
> woah...
>
> It's many files in FAAC with license problems.
>
> Holder Texas Instruments:
> tns.[ch] - Can feasibly removed FAAC's TNS implementation sucks.
> bitstream.c
>
> Nokia:
> backpred.c - Can feasibly removed, no one uses main profile
> ltp.c - Can feasibly removed, no one uses LTP
>
> FhG IIS:
> filterbank.c
>
> Dolby:
> huffman.[ch]
>
> Heiko Purnhagen (Univ of Hannover):
> bitstream.h
>
> Unknown:
> channels.c
>
> FhG and Dolby seem open source hostile. It may be possible to convince
> Nokia or TI to relicense. Mru, are you still in contact with TI?
>
> As far as opencore-amr goes. The combination license with FFmpeg
> results in LGPLv3 which many people are uncomfortable with.

My point still stands for FLAC and vorbis though ;)

Dark Shikari