[FFmpeg-devel] [Patch] Enable gpl if enabled nonfree

[François Revol]

> > > >> > Of course the nonfree
> > > >> > option is incompatible with everything and the resulting 
> > > > > > binary is
> > > >> > nonredistributable.
> > > >>
> > > >> "Of course" for us, but as I always expected and was shown to 
> > > > > us today, not for
> > > >> everybody.
> > > >
> > > > I still suspect PEBCAK because configure prints out:
> > > >
> > > > license: unredistributable
> > > >
> > > > at the end even when combining both options...
> > > 
> > > True. But maybe people do `./configure --OPTIONS && make && make
> > > install` and don't notice the output from configure. If no other
> > > license related options were allowed in conjunction with
> > > --enable-nonfree, it may make the license status more apparent.
> > 
> > Still it might make sense to just enable nonfree code without GPL 
> > code.

How about a --yes-i-mean-it when both are on ?

so someone doing configure --enable-gpl --enable-nonfree && make 

would get an error, look at it, and decide to do it anyway.

Fran?ois.