[FFmpeg-devel] [DECISION] Project policy on closed source components

[Baptiste Coudurier]

> On May 3, 2019, at 1:15 AM, Paul B Mahol <onemda at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 4/28/19, Marton Balint <cus at passwd.hu> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> There has been discussion on the mailing list several times about the
>> inclusion of support for closed source components (codecs, formats,
>> filters, etc) in the main ffmpeg codebase.
>> 
>> Also the removal of libNDI happened without general consensus, so a vote
>> is necessary to justify the removal.
>> 
>> So here is a call to the voting committee [1] to decide on the following
>> two questions:
>> 
>> 1) Should libNDI support be removed from the ffmpeg codebase?
> 
> Yes, yes.

Yes

> 
>> 
>> 2) Should patches using closed source libraries which are not considered
>> "System Libraries" according to the GPL be rejected?
> 
> Yes, yes, yes.

Yes

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Baptiste