faad2 2.5 licensing issues revisited

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

Hi.

Looks like we may yet have to revert back to FAAD2 CVS snapshot from
2004-09-15, i.e. before the controversial README change.

I've been talking to FFmpeg/MPlayer developers and when I pointed them to
http://bugzilla.livna.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1482#c4 , they immediately said
it was GPL incompatible. After re-reading this again I have to agree. That
is to say, we can still distribute it, but we can't distribute GPL binaries
linked against it. At least that's what I think.

We could build LGPL'd FFmpeg and then it could be linked against faad2-2.5,
but some parts of FFmpeg are GPL and thus would not be compiled. MPlayer
comes with its own faad2 snapshot from before the change. I haven't checked
other apps.

Comments?

Regards,
R.

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