[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]lavd: Remove libndi newtek

[Paul B Mahol]

On 12/3/18, Jan Ekström <jeebjp at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 6:06 PM Carl Eugen Hoyos <ceffmpeg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> It appears to me that NewTek abused our willingness to add an optional
>> external nonfree library, I don't see many better options. See Ticket
>> #7589 and a blog post by a NewTek engineer confirming the issue.
>>
>> Patch untested.
>>
>> Please comment, Carl Eugen
>
> On the general idea of this - agreed.
>
> Separately I think we should at least bring up a possible rethink of
> our policy about non-open source nonfree components.
>
> If it's:
> - Not part of the OS
> or
> - Not open source
>
> ...maybe we should not include such a component upstream?

Yes, remove all hardware stuff +1.