Bug#618968: Do not use ffmpeg in netgen

[Francesco Poli]

On Tue, 27 Nov 2012 20:06:16 +0100 Anton Gladky wrote:

[...]
> Francesco, could you, please, verify, whether the bug can be
> closed?

Hi Anton,
it seems to me that
http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/liba/libav/libav_0.8.4-1/libavcodec53.copyright
is no longer consistent with the actual licensing status of the libav
library.
I assumed that it was accurate (maybe it was at the time I originally
reported the bug against netgen...) and based my analysis on it!

I think this should be reported to the libav Debian package maintainers.


Back to the netgen issue, a quick audit of the libavcodec/,
libavformat/, and libswscale/ directories in the libav source tree
shows that everything seems to be licensed under the GNU LGPL or under
more permissive terms, except for:
 
libav-0.8.4/libavcodec/x86/idct_mmx.c
which is licensed under the GNU GPL v2 or later.

Does this file get compiled into a library that is linked with netgen?



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