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

[Ali KIZIL]

On Mon, Dec 3, 2018, 9:48 PM Paul B Mahol <onemda at gmail.com wrote:

> 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.
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>
> While there is a non-free option and while there are lots of HW related
> implementations done by developers in such condition for long time, I
> believe it is not right to remove all thesd valuable work. This will
> definitely break to courage to submit new developments to FFmpeg.


I also think, Newtek is not in a way to hide things as they share the post.
I believe they thought their approach is normal, when considering the
current case examples.