[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] News: Removal of libndi

[Ronald S. Bultje]

Hi,

On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 7:31 AM Nicolas George <george at nsup.org> wrote:

> Maksym Veremeyenko (12019-03-21):
> > i just extrapolated your main statement *The work was removed because the
> > library is 100% closed source and userland.* that should be applied to
> any
> > parts of ffmpeg... or not?
>
> Please stop being shifty: what parts of FFmpeg precisely are you
> suggesting to remove?
>

Presumably everything in EXTERNAL_LIBRARY_NONFREE_LIST and
EXTERNAL_LIBRARY_NONFREE_LIST which is actually closed-source?

So that's nvidia stuff (npp/cuda) and blackmagic. (I'm filtering out the
various ssl/aac components because they may be GPL-incompatible, but they
are opensource.)

I'm not mentioning quicksync because it's not in the nonfree list, but I
want to mention that our wiki does mention the use of closed-source code
[1]. I don't know what to make of this...

Ronald

[1] https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Hardware/QuickSync - search for "Licence
status of i965 VAAPI driver" [typo!]