Re: faac is nonfree according to ffmpeg - What to do ?

Nicolas Chauvet wrote: I guess that's because it's derived from the ISO MPEG reference implementation. That's definitely non-Free. :-/ Why do people copy non-Free code and then more or less claim it's LGPL? :-( Careful there: the old faad 1 is just as affected: http://faac.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/faac/faad/README?revision=1.8&... That's the same ISO MPEG license, which is non-Free due to: "Copyright is not released for non MPEG-2 NBC/MPEG-4 Audio conforming products." (That's a "you must comply to our standard" clause and that's non-Free as it doesn't allow reusing the code to implement a different standard.) On the other hand, faad 2 is at least claimed to be free of the offending code: http://faac.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/faac/faad2/README?revision=1.10&am... so that one should be OK. Hopefully, nothing ships builtin copies of the old version of faad! Kevin Kofler