[FFmpeg-cvslog] doc/general.texi: clarify FDK-AAC licensing & usability

Gyan Doshi git at videolan.org
Thu Jun 7 14:37:27 EEST 2018


ffmpeg | branch: master | Gyan Doshi <ffmpeg at gyani.pro> | Thu Jun  7 17:22:56 2018 +0530| [47a818323ba0fea16667031e0788756960a308ea] | committer: Gyan Doshi

doc/general.texi: clarify FDK-AAC licensing & usability

Mnetion it can be used to decode as well.

> http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi/ffmpeg.git/?a=commit;h=47a818323ba0fea16667031e0788756960a308ea
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 doc/general.texi | 9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/general.texi b/doc/general.texi
index 2583006b14..8c3a04b078 100644
--- a/doc/general.texi
+++ b/doc/general.texi
@@ -46,9 +46,10 @@ upgrade FFmpeg's license to LGPL version 3 (or if you have enabled
 GPL components, GPL version 3) by passing @code{--enable-version3} to configure in
 order to use it.
 
-The Fraunhofer AAC library is licensed under a license incompatible to the GPL
-and is not known to be compatible to the LGPL. Therefore, you have to pass
- at code{--enable-nonfree} to configure to use it.
+The license of the Fraunhofer AAC library is incompatible with the GPL.
+Therefore, for GPL builds, you have to pass @code{--enable-nonfree} to
+configure in order to use it. To the best of our knowledge, it is
+compatible with the LGPL.
 @end float
 
 @subsection OpenCORE AMR
@@ -71,7 +72,7 @@ Then pass @code{--enable-libvo-amrwbenc} to configure to enable it.
 
 @subsection Fraunhofer AAC library
 
-FFmpeg can make use of the Fraunhofer AAC library for AAC encoding.
+FFmpeg can make use of the Fraunhofer AAC library for AAC decoding & encoding.
 
 Go to @url{http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencore-amr/} and follow the
 instructions for installing the library.



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