[FFmpeg-devel] RTMPE support

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:07:19AM -0700, Howard Chu wrote:
> Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> >On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 03:20:29AM -0700, Howard Chu wrote:
> >>librtmp is LGPL.
> >
> >I don't think so.
> >It includes openssl/ssl.h unconditionally which at least on my system includes e.g. this:
> >>* 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
> >>*    must display the following acknowledgement:
> >and thus AFAICT is GPL-incompatible.
> >Thus librtmp can not be LGPL, and a --enable-gpl FFmpeg linked against this
> >would be non-redistributable (for Linux system maybe you could claim the system
> >library exception in the GPL, but at least Windows binary with librtmp for all I can
> >tell would be a huge issue).
> 
> On Windows we don't ship the OpenSSL code. It's dynamically linked
> and we tell users to install it themselves from here

Uh, the code included ssl.h so sure you ship OpenSSL code.
Hopefully only non-copyrightable parts, but it's still OpenSSL code.