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

[Peter Ross]

On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 10:43:36AM -0700, Baptiste Coudurier wrote:
> 
> > On May 3, 2019, at 1:15 AM, Paul B Mahol <onemda at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > On 4/28/19, Marton Balint <cus at passwd.hu> wrote:
> >> Hi All,
> >> 
> >> There has been discussion on the mailing list several times about the
> >> inclusion of support for closed source components (codecs, formats,
> >> filters, etc) in the main ffmpeg codebase.
> >> 
> >> Also the removal of libNDI happened without general consensus, so a vote
> >> is necessary to justify the removal.
> >> 
> >> So here is a call to the voting committee [1] to decide on the following
> >> two questions:
> >> 
> >> 1) Should libNDI support be removed from the ffmpeg codebase?
> > 
> > Yes, yes.
> 
> Yes

Yes.

> >> 2) Should patches using closed source libraries which are not considered
> >> "System Libraries" according to the GPL be rejected?
> > 
> > Yes, yes, yes.
> 
> Yes

Yes.

-- Peter
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