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

[Diego Biurrun]

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 05:07:50PM -0400, Justin Ruggles wrote:
> Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
> > 
> > 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.

Add ac3_gpl or similar to CONFIG_EXTRA, then make ac3_gpl depend on gpl
and ac3_decoder.

Diego