Comment 51 for bug 93849

komputes <email address hidden> writes:

> Hi Reinhard. I would not recommend anyone to test SVN on a production
> machine, but on a test box, in a VM or another type of sandboxed test
> environment.

then please be more careful before giving such advice.

> I had not considered the legal issues with this request, simply the
> technical side (curiosity - to see it work). I still don't quite
> understand why packages would have to be removed because of that (but
> then again I am not a lawyer). Is there any way to make opencore-amr
> modular, so it can be added after the fact without compiling ffmpeg?

I don't understand what you mean here.

The problem is that GPLv2 only applications may not be redistributed
with an GPLv3 only library. ffmpeg is currently GPLv2 or later, linking
it with opencore-amr would make it GPLv3 only.

> Meanwhile on the GNOME upstream bug I have gotten the following response:
> Sebastian Dröge 2009-12-31 10:19:05 UTC
> Yes, you need at least 0.10.13 of gst-plugins-ugly.
>
> Is -ugly 0.10.13 available in a PPA for testing? Cheers!

gstreamer is a bit special, because it loads amr at run-time. This way,
the license violation happens on the user's system, and not on the
ubuntu build machines. Loading opencore-amr at runtime is (currently)
not possible with current ffmpeg, though feel free to send in a patch.

still very messy, IMO.

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Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4