Re: Inaccurate information about LiVES package

[salsaman <salsaman@xxxxxxxxx>]

As far as I can recall it was part of a lengthy discussion I had with Diego Biurrun several years ago. I don't have the email to hand any more. But the gist was that libavcodec/libavformat no longer contained any hard coded codecs, so it would be possible to build these libraries with just free codecs (e.g. ogg/theora/vorbis).

Therefore, I would be interested to know - if one were to build libavcodec/libavformat with all codecs disabled except for say, ogg/theora/vorbis, would there still be a problem ?

Regards,
Salsaman.

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On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tuesday, 01 June 2010 at 17:11, salsaman wrote:
> Please answer the question. I have been personally assured by
> representatives of the mplayer developers that the ffmpeg code contains *no
> patented code*. I spent over two years fighting to convince the debian
> developers that this was true, until they finally accepted it.

As far as I know (and I know many of them personally), none of MPlayer
developers are lawyers, so even if one of them said that (which I seriously
doubt), it doesn't "clear" anything. In other words, please tell us what
was the exact question that you asked, what was the answer, and who provided
it? Preferably by pointing to a post from a public mailing list.

Regards,
R.

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