On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Dave Plater lst <dplater.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 03/17/2012 01:09 AM, Campbell Barton wrote: >> Do you have a link to the patches you're applying to blender? >> >> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 9:18 PM, Dave Plater lst<dplater.l...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> I'm getting really tired of having to continually patch blender releases to >>> pass the openSUSE / Novell legal review. I'm led to believe >>> that if a program doesn't link against a patent or copyright challenged >>> library then it isn't in danger of legal action. You can understand >>> a company like Novell being a target for such legal action. >>> What I would like to know is what are the functions of the various xvid and >>> ffmpeg sources/scripts. The python ones that I've glanced at >>> seem to have the purpose of supplying parameters to ffmpeg. > Which is not a legal problem, this is similar to what for example kde's > kaffeine does with codecs. >>> I'm then going to pass this information to the legal department for >>> clarification on whether I really have to remove these bits and patch >>> blender to build without them or not.
Here's the solution I came up with for 2.62. I modified the cmake config using this patch[1] so that everything is handled by the WITH_CODEC_FFMPEG cmake option. I think this patch should be acceptable upstream and then you would only need to use the DISTRIBUTABLE conditional in one place. Thanks, Richard [1] http://dl.dropbox.com/u/34775202/blender-2.62-blenkernel.patch _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers