Hi devs, Please advise. I recall libavcodec is quite old already, and probably obsolete mostly because of FFmpg?
-Ton- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ton Roosendaal Blender Foundation t...@blender.org www.blender.org Blender Institute Entrepotdok 57A 1018AD Amsterdam The Netherlands Begin forwarded message: > From: Carl Eugen Hoyos > Date: 6 January, 2011 17:15:37 GMT+01:00 > To: foundat...@blender.org > Subject: Copyright violation distributing faac binaries together > with GPL software > > Hi! > > I am an FFmpeg developer and I just found out that Blender binaries > are distributed containing GPL'd versions of libavcodec linked > against non-free software (this is a copyright violation). > > I don't know where to report this (should I open a bug report?), so > I write to the only email adress I easily found on the web-site. > > I downloaded blender-2.49b-windows, it contains libavcodec.dll, a > binary distribution of libavcodec. The dll contains code from x264, > making it GPL (and not LGPL). It also contains code from the libfaac > project. > Originally, libfaac claimed to be free software (under the LGPL), > but unfortunately, this was never true: libfaac is (and always has > been) proprietary software. > Since you cannot fulfill the requirements of the GPL for libfaac, > you cannot distribute a GPL'd version of libavcodec with libfaac > support enabled. Please remove it from your download page / update > your libavcodec version. > > Thank you, Carl Eugen Hoyos _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers