[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] the future of libamr

Kostya kostya.shishkov
Wed Jul 1 16:40:34 CEST 2009


On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 04:36:11PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 07:38:50PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > [...]
> 
> I don't know if anybody else counted, but the vote is tied:
> 
> 
> remove:
> 
> Diego
> Ronald
> Carl Eugen
> Ramiro
> Justin
> 
> 
> remove all but WB encoder:
> 
> Benjamin
> Robert
> Benoit
> Jai
> 
> 
> keep:
> 
> Baptiste
> 
> 
> So we need somebody to break the tie.  I'll note that all the devs that
> deal with license violators (Carl Eugen, Ronald, myself) are firmly for
> removing libamr support.  This is not a coincidence.
> 
> Also note that removing everything but the AMR-WB encoder is not really
> a compromise.  The point of this is to really get rid of the possibility
> of linking FFmpeg to a nonfree library.  If we keep the AMR-WB encoding
> wrapper, this problem remains.
> 
> Now if somebody could step forward to break the tie...

Okay - I vote for removing it completely.
 
> Diego



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