[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 2/3] avfilter: add an LCEVC decoding filter

[Cosmin Stejerean]

On Mar 19, 2024, at 10:21 AM, Kieran Kunhya <kierank at obe.tv> wrote:

On Tue, 19 Mar 2024 at 15:27, James Almer <jamrial at gmail.com <mailto:jamrial at gmail.com> > wrote:

On 3/19/2024 12:20 PM, Kieran Kunhya wrote:From https://github.com/v-novaltd/LCEVCdec
" This software is protected by copyrights and other intellectual
property
rights and no license is granted to any such rights. If you would like to
obtain a license to compile, distribute, or make any other use of this
software, please contact V-Nova Limited info at v-nova.com."

So you want to include a library that requires ffmpeg users to obtain a
licence to compile?

Would adding it to the nonfree list be enough? But it's true that most

users would not be aware of the aforementioned limitations.


This is a slippery slope to adding whatever binary blob. As the decoder is
de-facto a binary blob.


Yeah, source available but with a prohibition on compilation might as well be a binary blob. Even to be on non-free I'd expect something along the lines of the FDK-AAC license at a minimum.

- Cosmin