[Bug 1501522] Review Request: fdk-aac-free - Third-Party Modified Version of the Fraunhofer FDK AAC Codec Library for Android

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1501522



--- Comment #112 from Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx> ---
(With my "Fedora Legal" hat on...)

The Fedora Project is aware that the Free Software Foundation has stated that
the Fraunhofer FDK AAC license is GPL incompatible, specifically, because of
Clause 3.

We believe that the fdk-aac software codec implementation that we wish to
include in Fedora is no longer encumbered by AAC patents. This fact means that
Clause 3 in the FDK AAC license is a "no op", or to put it plainly, if no
patents are in play, there are no patent licenses to disclaim. For this (and
only this) specific implementation of fdk-aac, we believe that the FDK AAC
license is GPL compatible.

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