[Bug 2736] Review Request: fdk-aac - Fraunhofer FDK AAC Codec Library

[RPM Fusion Bugzilla]

https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2736

--- Comment #22 from Eric Work <work.eric at gmail.com> 2016-01-13 20:01:52 CET ---
(In reply to comment #19)
> And This is totally illegal as stated by FFmpeg, this is a violation of their
> GPL rights, Please read: "December 5th, 2015, The native FFmpeg AAC encoder is
> now stable!" on ffmpeg.org
> It will be better to the the full featured native ffmpeg aac encoder
> implementation.
> 
> As a project, we cannot endorse such violation of the GPL.

I'm not sure I understand what is illegal about Negativo distributing an
fdk-aac package and an ffmpeg package that links to the fdk-aac libraries
dynamically.  If you statically linked to a non-distributable library then
you'd have problems.  It's true that there could be some patent issues in
certain countries and fdk-aac is not GPL, but this is also why you need to pass
--non-free to configure to enable it.  I think this is why it's discouraged. 
This is more an aside and regardless this is definitely in the nonfree section.

Your second point about the native AAC encoder being stable is great news and
probably removes the need for fdk-aac at all.  I'm in agreement with everyone
here that we should use the native AAC encoder rather than link fdk-acc to
ffmpeg.  If fdk-aac is packaged stand-alone in the nonfree section someone
could always enable the conditional that's been fixed in the ffmpeg package to
build fdk-aac support locally.

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