Is there any plan to split ffmpeg into ffmpeg(without patent issue) and ffmeeg-freeworld?

[Chen Lei]

On 2010-04-27 16:31:10£¬"Nicolas Chauvet" <kwizart at gmail.com> Wrote £º
>To have FFmpeg in Fedora, I would just built the library from stripped
>source with a special suffix SONAME and using alternatives with a low
>number for the pc files. Then with the same revision of the unstripped
>sources, the standard version only with libavcodec. (along with a
>tweaked library using the same SONAME). That way, codec that was not
>available in the package built with the fedora FFmpeg version will
>become available.
>
>
>Nicolas (kwizart)
Debian ffmpeg maintainers simply disabled some codecs in %configure instead of strip the source code as before. 
 
http://supercyper.fedorapeople.org/ffmpeg/debian/README.Source
 
But FE-legal seems much more strict than debian-legal, I wonder whether we can do it in the same way. Another thing need to consider is how many codecs could be approved by FE-legal, can we ship as many codecs as debian counterpart?
http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/ffmpeg
 
Regard,
Chen Lei
 
Chen Lei
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