[FFmpeg-devel] [DECISION] Project policy on closed source components

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

On Fri, 3 May 2019, at 07:27, Jeyapal, Karthick wrote:
> Open source violation by NDI is a serious issue that needs to be 
> addressed. But removing the libndi plugin from the ffmpeg repository 
> will not address the issue of violation. A willful violator can still 

You are confusing 2 things:
- the violation of FFmpeg and x264 license from NDI, and the usual hostility of Newtek towards our community,
- the violation of this project ideas by allowing linking a completely-closed source library.

Problem [1] made a lot of people look at problem [2], because not many people had looked at it closely.
Because of [1], people looked at [2] and realized that this was not OK, and different from the rest of the FFmpeg project, especially since we refused librmhd and other closed-source libraries.

So please don't make it a vote about [1], when it is a vote about [2].

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