[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] dynload for libfaac

[Jason Garrett-Glaser]

On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 02:42:56PM -0500, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Reinhard Tartler <siretart at tauware.de> wrote:
>> > I think we had this a disagreement several times by now. Can we pretty
>> > please agree to disagree on that? Distros like debian and ubuntu seems
>> > to be fine with that.
>>
>> Let me be clear here:
>>
>> - I am a FFpeg copyright holder and the contact person for FFmpeg with SFLC;
>> - I will instruct SFLC to sue any (commercial) entity distributing any
>> sort of combination of FFmpeg with libfaac, libfaacbin,
>> $hack-of-the-day, that results in the execution of code from libfaac
>> and FFmpeg within a single binary.
>>
>> Is that clear?
>
> Is it not beautifull how the FOSS community stands together united
>
> its none of my business who you sue but id suggest you go over the ones
> on our shame list (and some who are not but should be) and sue them before
> the bunch of debian cd distributors ;)
>

Agreed, legal threats are stupid in this situation.

> In fact, the RIAA has been known to suggest that students drop out
> of college or go to community college in order to be able to afford
> settlements. -- The RIAA

What a relevant quote the random quote picker chose ;)

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