ffmpeg into non-free

Fabian Greffrath fabian.greffrath at lycos.de
Fri Dec 28 16:31:44 UTC 2007


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'.

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?

Cheers,
Fabian




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