ffmpeg into non-free

[Reinhard Tartler]

Fabian Greffrath <fabian.greffrath at lycos.de> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to share my 2 cents about this:
>
> I believe 'ffmpeg-free' should be renamed back to 'ffmpeg', because we
> do *not* ship software that's more free than any other ffmpeg package;
> it's still LGPL/GPL. All we do is disable certain codecs, but this does
> not make it the program more 'free'. 
> If we really like to stress this fact, a suffix (e.g. +debian or +dfsg
> or even +crippled) could be appended to the version string, but the
> source should still be called 'ffmpeg'.

I don't have strong preference on this. Sam, your call!

> Then I believe we should provide our users a possibility to rebuild the
> package on their own without removing the codecs. Why not simply run
> 'strip.sh' at runtime or implement it as a patch that gets applied only
> if 'ifneq (,$(findstring risky,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))' fails?

Because in that case we would still distribute 'risky' code as source. 

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