On date Monday 2013-11-25 22:39:36 +0000, Carl Eugen Hoyos nutted: > Michael Winter <mwinter@...> writes: > > > What is used for decoding mp3? > > The mp3 (or mpegaudio) decoder. > (Sorry.) > > > Does it comply with the --enable-nonfree compilation? > > This question makes no sense to me, I suspect "nonfree" > means something something completely different for you > than for the FFmpeg developers. > > The --enable-nonfree option of configure allows you > to compile external libraries that are only available > under a software license that is not compatible with > the GPL. It is mostly needed for aac encoders like > libfaac. It has no meaning for any internal parts > of FFmpeg, FFmpeg does not contain any code that is > not licensed under GPL or LGPL. > (The mp3 decoder is an internal part of FFmpeg.)
Just let me note that "--enable-nonfree" is an incredibly poor and confusing name choice (what is "free"?, why should a non-GPL license be considered "non-free"?). Thus it is almost inevitable that it will confuse people. "free" is a vastly generic term and should not be used in technical context. A possibly better choice would be "--enable-non-rms-free". _______________________________________________ Libav-user mailing list [email protected] http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-user
