Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]lavd: Remove libndi newtek

2018-12-10 Thread Carl Eugen Hoyos
2018-12-10 9:46 GMT+01:00, Gyan : > > On 10-12-2018 07:41 AM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote: >> 2018-12-03 17:05 GMT+01:00, Carl Eugen Hoyos : >> >>> It appears to me that NewTek abused our willingness to add an optional >>> external nonfree library, I don't see many better options. See Ticket >>> #7589

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]lavd: Remove libndi newtek

2018-12-10 Thread Ali KIZIL
Gyan , 10 Ara 2018 Pzt, 11:47 tarihinde şunu yazdı: > > On 10-12-2018 07:41 AM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote: > > 2018-12-03 17:05 GMT+01:00, Carl Eugen Hoyos : > > > >> It appears to me that NewTek abused our willingness to add an optional > >> external nonfree library, I don't see many better

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]lavd: Remove libndi newtek

2018-12-10 Thread Gyan
On 10-12-2018 07:41 AM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote: 2018-12-03 17:05 GMT+01:00, Carl Eugen Hoyos : It appears to me that NewTek abused our willingness to add an optional external nonfree library, I don't see many better options. See Ticket #7589 and a blog post by a NewTek engineer confirming the

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]lavd: Remove libndi newtek

2018-12-09 Thread Carl Eugen Hoyos
2018-12-03 17:05 GMT+01:00, Carl Eugen Hoyos : > It appears to me that NewTek abused our willingness to add an optional > external nonfree library, I don't see many better options. See Ticket > #7589 and a blog post by a NewTek engineer confirming the issue. > > Patch untested. After several

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]lavd: Remove libndi newtek

2018-12-05 Thread Jean-Baptiste Kempf
On Tue, 4 Dec 2018, at 22:50, Martin Vignali wrote: > > But then, you will get absolutely all the integration from ALL the various > > non-open source multimedia libraries, because it is useful to someone. > > Including shims for Adobe, Dolby and others. > > I'm probably disagree with you on

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]lavd: Remove libndi newtek

2018-12-05 Thread Nicolas George
Marton Balint (2018-12-03): > You should think about our users who compile and use ffmpeg with NDI. This > change affects them negatively, so I don't support it. They chose to use hardware that only works with non-free software. They made their bed. I support the removal. Regards, --

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]lavd: Remove libndi newtek

2018-12-04 Thread Ronald S. Bultje
Hi, On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 4:56 PM Martin Vignali wrote: > Le mar. 4 déc. 2018 à 16:12, Jean-Baptiste Kempf a > écrit : > > > But then, you will get absolutely all the integration from ALL the > various > > non-open source multimedia libraries, because it is useful to someone. > > Including

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]lavd: Remove libndi newtek

2018-12-04 Thread Martin Vignali
Le mar. 4 déc. 2018 à 16:12, Jean-Baptiste Kempf a écrit : > Helllo, > > On Tue, 4 Dec 2018, at 15:00, Martin Vignali wrote: > > 1 : > > Removing features used by people which doesn't respect the licence, > seems a > > very bad thing. > > I disagree with you. > Helping people violating open

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]lavd: Remove libndi newtek

2018-12-04 Thread Jean-Baptiste Kempf
Helllo, On Tue, 4 Dec 2018, at 15:00, Martin Vignali wrote: > 1 : > Removing features used by people which doesn't respect the licence, seems a > very bad thing. I disagree with you. Helping people violating open source licenses is not a good idea. > 3 - Need a proper definition, and a

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]lavd: Remove libndi newtek

2018-12-04 Thread Carl Eugen Hoyos
2018-12-04 15:00 GMT+01:00, Martin Vignali : > There is a mix of several discussion in this thread, which need to be > discuss separately. > > 1 - Licence violation on a build. [...] > 1 : > Doesn't really understand, how this licence violation can be fix in > modifying the source code. Where

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]lavd: Remove libndi newtek

2018-12-04 Thread Martin Vignali
There is a mix of several discussion in this thread, which need to be discuss separately. 1 - Licence violation on a build. 2 - Opinion on Newtek behaviour 3 - Inclusion of non open source part 4 - Removal of libndi device 1 : Doesn't really understand, how this licence violation can be fix in

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]lavd: Remove libndi newtek

2018-12-03 Thread Jean-Baptiste Kempf
On Mon, 3 Dec 2018, at 23:14, Marton Balint wrote: > On Mon, 3 Dec 2018, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote: > > On Mon, 3 Dec 2018, at 19:48, Paul B Mahol wrote: > > Libraries to access hardware, notably those that are talking directly with > > something that was shipped with the drivers, are usually

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]lavd: Remove libndi newtek

2018-12-03 Thread Ali KIZIL
On Tue, Dec 4, 2018, 1:14 AM Marton Balint > > On Mon, 3 Dec 2018, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote: > > > 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

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]lavd: Remove libndi newtek

2018-12-03 Thread Marton Balint
On Mon, 3 Dec 2018, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote: 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

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]lavd: Remove libndi newtek

2018-12-03 Thread Jean-Baptiste Kempf
> Again: What message would this send to future license violators? A bad one. I would remove this. -- Jean-Baptiste Kempf - President +33 672 704 734 ___ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]lavd: Remove libndi newtek

2018-12-03 Thread Jean-Baptiste Kempf
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 >

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]lavd: Remove libndi newtek

2018-12-03 Thread Jean-Baptiste Kempf
On Mon, 3 Dec 2018, at 17:05, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote: > It appears to me that NewTek abused our willingness to add an optional > external nonfree library, I don't see many better options. See Ticket > #7589 and a blog post by a NewTek engineer confirming the issue. +1, please apply. Newtek is a

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]lavd: Remove libndi newtek

2018-12-03 Thread Marton Balint
On Mon, 3 Dec 2018, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote: Hi! It appears to me that NewTek abused our willingness to add an optional external nonfree library, I don't see many better options. See Ticket #7589 and a blog post by a NewTek engineer confirming the issue. You should think about our users who

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]lavd: Remove libndi newtek

2018-12-03 Thread Ali KIZIL
On Tue, Dec 4, 2018, 12:07 AM Carl Eugen Hoyos 2018-12-03 22:00 GMT+01:00, Ali KIZIL : > > > Newtek representative says, they will remove the binary from SDK right > away > > Could you please read the sentence you sent? > Particularly the words "says" and "will". > > They did not remove the

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]lavd: Remove libndi newtek

2018-12-03 Thread Jan Ekström
On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 10:29 PM Martin Vignali wrote: > > This patch looks wrong to me. > > It's seems like removing features for personal opinion. > > Ticket 7589, mention an incorrect build redistribution. > > So, right way to fix this ticket, will be (for people interesting in this > kind of

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]lavd: Remove libndi newtek

2018-12-03 Thread Carl Eugen Hoyos
2018-12-03 22:00 GMT+01:00, Ali KIZIL : > Newtek representative says, they will remove the binary from SDK right away Could you please read the sentence you sent? Particularly the words "says" and "will". They did not remove the binariy when informed about the license violations! (At least,

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]lavd: Remove libndi newtek

2018-12-03 Thread Paul B Mahol
On 12/3/18, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote: > 2018-12-03 21:28 GMT+01:00, Martin Vignali : >> Ticket 7589, mention an incorrect build redistribution. >> >> So, right way to fix this ticket, will be (for people interesting in this >> kind of thing) >> to indicate, what need to be done, in order to have a

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]lavd: Remove libndi newtek

2018-12-03 Thread Nicolas George
Ali KIZIL (2018-12-04): > Personally, I do not believe they break the license on purpose. If so, they They are a commercial entity, they have a legal department. "Not on purpose" is not an excuse for them. > wouldn't announce it. They would fo as some others do, by trying hide. So > personally,

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]lavd: Remove libndi newtek

2018-12-03 Thread Ali KIZIL
On Mon, Dec 3, 2018, 11:41 PM Carl Eugen Hoyos 2018-12-03 21:28 GMT+01:00, Martin Vignali : > >> > >> > >> > >> It appears to me that NewTek abused our willingness to add an > >> > >> optional > >> > >> external nonfree library, I don't see many better options. See > Ticket > >> > >> #7589 and a

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]lavd: Remove libndi newtek

2018-12-03 Thread Nicolas George
Jan Ekström (2018-12-03): > 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? I agree. Maybe we

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]lavd: Remove libndi newtek

2018-12-03 Thread Carl Eugen Hoyos
2018-12-03 21:28 GMT+01:00, Martin Vignali : >> > >> >> > >> It appears to me that NewTek abused our willingness to add an >> > >> optional >> > >> external nonfree library, I don't see many better options. See Ticket >> > >> #7589 and a blog post by a NewTek engineer confirming the issue. >> > >>

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]lavd: Remove libndi newtek

2018-12-03 Thread Martin Vignali
> > >> > > >> It appears to me that NewTek abused our willingness to add an optional > > >> external nonfree library, I don't see many better options. See Ticket > > >> #7589 and a blog post by a NewTek engineer confirming the issue. > > >> > > >> Patch untested. > > >> > > >> Please comment, Carl

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]lavd: Remove libndi newtek

2018-12-03 Thread Jan Ekström
On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 8:48 PM Paul B Mahol wrote: > > On 12/3/18, Jan Ekström wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 6:06 PM Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote: > >> > >> Hi! > >> > >> It appears to me that NewTek abused our willingness to add an optional > >> external nonfree library, I don't see many better

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]lavd: Remove libndi newtek

2018-12-03 Thread Ali KIZIL
On Mon, Dec 3, 2018, 9:48 PM Paul B Mahol On 12/3/18, Jan Ekström wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 6:06 PM Carl Eugen Hoyos > wrote: > >> > >> Hi! > >> > >> It appears to me that NewTek abused our willingness to add an optional > >> external nonfree library, I don't see many better options.

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]lavd: Remove libndi newtek

2018-12-03 Thread Paul B Mahol
On 12/3/18, Jan Ekström wrote: > On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 6:06 PM Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote: >> >> Hi! >> >> It appears to me that NewTek abused our willingness to add an optional >> external nonfree library, I don't see many better options. See Ticket >> #7589 and a blog post by a NewTek engineer

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]lavd: Remove libndi newtek

2018-12-03 Thread Jan Ekström
On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 6:06 PM Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote: > > Hi! > > It appears to me that NewTek abused our willingness to add an optional > external nonfree library, I don't see many better options. See Ticket > #7589 and a blog post by a NewTek engineer confirming the issue. > > Patch untested.

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]lavd: Remove libndi newtek

2018-12-03 Thread Carl Eugen Hoyos
2018-12-03 19:12 GMT+01:00, Timo Rothenpieler : > I contacted NewTek about this, here's the pretty much immediate response > I got: > > On 03.12.2018 18:55, Andrew Cross wrote: >> Yikes, I am pretty surprised by this to be honest I think that our intent >> might have been entirely misconstrued.

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]lavd: Remove libndi newtek

2018-12-03 Thread Timo Rothenpieler
I contacted NewTek about this, here's the pretty much immediate response I got: On 03.12.2018 18:55, Andrew Cross wrote: Yikes, I am pretty surprised by this to be honest I think that our intent might have been entirely misconstrued. We are in no way trying to abuse anything anyone did and

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]lavd: Remove libndi newtek

2018-12-03 Thread Nicolas George
Dennis Mungai (2018-12-03): > In this case , Carl's decision to strip their code from FFmpeg is valid. > This is a clear violation of the license terms. Indeed. And please stop top-posting. If you do not know what it means, look it up. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description:

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]lavd: Remove libndi newtek

2018-12-03 Thread Dennis Mungai
In this case , Carl's decision to strip their code from FFmpeg is valid. This is a clear violation of the license terms. On Mon, Dec 3, 2018, 19:38 Nicolas George Kyle Schwarz (2018-12-03): > > https://www.newtek.com/blog/introducing-ndi-3-5/ > > > > > ... and we even include FFMPEG for Windows

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]lavd: Remove libndi newtek

2018-12-03 Thread Nicolas George
Kyle Schwarz (2018-12-03): > https://www.newtek.com/blog/introducing-ndi-3-5/ > > > ... and we even include FFMPEG for Windows with NDI support for your > > convenience, eliminating the hassle of working out how to compile it > > yourself. That is not how it is supposed to work. If they want

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]lavd: Remove libndi newtek

2018-12-03 Thread Dennis Mungai
Carl, If it is indeed an abuse of the license terms, as you've purported, it would be wise to get their input on this, as Gyan Doshi has elaborated above. They are contributors to this project, and it falls to reason that the burden of addressing this falls on them. Moving forward with such

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]lavd: Remove libndi newtek

2018-12-03 Thread Kyle Schwarz
On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 11:16 AM Gyan Doshi wrote: > On 03-12-2018 09:35 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote: > > It appears to me that NewTek abused our willingness to add an optional > > external nonfree library, I don't see many better options. See Ticket > > #7589 and a blog post by a NewTek engineer

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]lavd: Remove libndi newtek

2018-12-03 Thread Carl Eugen Hoyos
2018-12-03 17:13 GMT+01:00, Dennis Mungai : > Has Newtek NDI been given a chance to rectify this from their end? Why do you believe that this would be a useful way to go? > This is clearly a license violation, but taking drastic steps such > as stripping support for their protocols is a knee

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]lavd: Remove libndi newtek

2018-12-03 Thread Gyan Doshi
On 03-12-2018 09:49 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote: 2018-12-03 17:16 GMT+01:00, Gyan Doshi : What's the link to the blog post? Also, is anyone from Newtek on the ML - if not, is there someone we can invite for input? What kind of input would seem useful to you in this case? Insight on

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]lavd: Remove libndi newtek

2018-12-03 Thread Dennis Mungai
Hello there, Has Newtek NDI been given a chance to rectify this from their end? This is clearly a license violation, but taking drastic steps such as stripping support for their protocols is a knee jerk reaction. Let them respond before merging this PR. Regards, Dennis. On Mon, Dec 3, 2018,

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]lavd: Remove libndi newtek

2018-12-03 Thread Carl Eugen Hoyos
2018-12-03 17:16 GMT+01:00, Gyan Doshi : > On 03-12-2018 09:35 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote: >> Hi! >> >> It appears to me that NewTek abused our willingness to add an optional >> external nonfree library, I don't see many better options. See Ticket >> #7589 and a blog post by a NewTek engineer

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]lavd: Remove libndi newtek

2018-12-03 Thread Gyan Doshi
On 03-12-2018 09:35 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote: Hi! It appears to me that NewTek abused our willingness to add an optional external nonfree library, I don't see many better options. See Ticket #7589 and a blog post by a NewTek engineer confirming the issue. What's the link to the blog post?

[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]lavd: Remove libndi newtek

2018-12-03 Thread Carl Eugen Hoyos
Hi! It appears to me that NewTek abused our willingness to add an optional external nonfree library, I don't see many better options. See Ticket #7589 and a blog post by a NewTek engineer confirming the issue. Patch untested. Please comment, Carl Eugen From