Bug#569727: ffmpeg: Please update

[Adrian Bunk]

On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 09:16:26AM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>...
> > and lacks e.g.  the AMR support that is now possible with libraries
> > already in Debian.
> 
> that's already possible with ffmpeg 0.5 that we ship with squeeze. The
> problem with that is the license: linking against opencore will render
> the resulting libavcodec library as GPLv3. Until now, noone has made an
> analysis on the impact of that change.

Why? opencore is licenced under the Apache License Version 2.0

>...
> Gruesse/greetings,
> Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4

cu
Adrian

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