[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]avfilter: add Intel IPP library based x86 optimized video scaling filter

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

On Mon, 7 Jun 2021, at 23:49, Jan Ekström wrote:
> If you just go without any rhetoric and just look at what "nonfree"
> 
> We can start with the history of the option - originally added in
> 3fe142e2555ec8b527f2ff4cc517c015a114e91a (Jan, 2008) - to denote that
> due to the libamrnb/libamrwb wrappers being based on reference code,
> 
> Then if we look at what the nonfree option is currently utilized for:
> 
> capture card hardware integration (1):
>     decklink
> 
> open source that just happens to have incompatible licensing with
> regards to GPL (3):
>     libfdk_aac
>     openssl
>     libtls
> 
> (old) CUDA SDK things (3):
>     cuda_nvcc
>     cuda_sdk
>     libnpp
> 
> Thus looking at both historical point of that option, as well as its
> current uses, I don't see there's any reason to include a wrapper for
> a closed source scaling library that does not benefit the project (it
> re-implements already existing capability).

I very much approve of Jan's email who has given a good summary, and whose opinion I share.

jb

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