Fabian Greffrath <fab...@greffrath.com>: > Is fdk-aac finally the first *free* high-quality AAC encoder or is it > just the next *non-free* one after FAAC?
>From what I've read, FAAC is not a high-quality AAC encoder. As far as I know, fdk-aac is the only high-quality open-source AAC encoder. I don't know if fdk-aac is DFSG-free, or GPL-compatible, but even if it's neither, Debian could still package it, right? There's also a command-line tool, fdkaac, that uses it. Of course, the library would be much more useful if avconv could use it. If libfdk-aac is GPL-incompatible, what does that imply? That avconv must not require libfdk-aac to be present at runtime? Could it check for the existence of libfdk-aac and dlopen() it if it's found? Would that make them independent enough that their licenses wouldn't need to be compatible? It's a shame that various open-source licenses fight each other and thus impede rather than promote the development of free software. AMC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130509210531.klz~@nicemice.net