On Mon, 3 Dec 2018, at 19:48, Paul B Mahol wrote: > > On the general idea of this - agreed. > > > > Separately I think we should at least bring up a possible rethink of > > our policy about non-open source nonfree components. > > > > If it's: > > - Not part of the OS > > or > > - Not open source > > > > ...maybe we should not include such a component upstream? > > Yes, remove all hardware stuff +1.
Libraries to access hardware, notably those that are talking directly with something that was shipped with the drivers, are usually considered part of the OS. This is a bit weird, but this extend the Linux way to other (broken) OSes. That would make nvenc and such acceptable. NDI is not hardware. (Nor is faac) -- Jean-Baptiste Kempf - President +33 672 704 734 _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
