[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] AC3 LGPL relicense/split

Justin Ruggles justin.ruggles
Fri Apr 10 23:07:50 CEST 2009


Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
> Hi Justin,
> 
> 2009/3/21 Justin Ruggles <justin.ruggles at gmail.com>:
>> Before relicensing, it would probably be good for someone other than me
>> to go through all of the AC3 decoder code and compare it to liba52 just
>> for a second opinion.
> 
> Was this patch ever committed and the review ever done? I can do the
> review if all the rest is done. I'd love to finish the relicensing
> process.

Not committed, no review done.  I don't much like the patch... but I
dislike the licensing situation even worse.

For one thing, I couldn't get it to conditionally compile the GPL file
based on both gpl and ac3_decoder being enabled.  I could only find a
way to make it depend on gpl being enabled.

-Justin




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