[Bf-committers] Fwd: Copyright violation distributing faac binaries together with GPL software

Dan Eicher dan at trollwerks.org
Fri Jan 7 06:47:47 CET 2011


On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Leo Sutic <leo.sutic at gmail.com> wrote:
> No probs, dude.
>
> Regarding the 2.56 version - right now we have a libavcodec dll binary
> checked into SVN - there is no source code in the blender tree:
>
>    https://svn.blender.org/svnroot/bf-blender/trunk/lib/windows/ffmpeg/lib/
>
> (We have ffmpeg binaries for other platforms checked in as well)
>
> I think it would be trivial to get a source package checked in there
> as well. The corresponding source tarball is here:
>
>    http://ffmpeg.arrozcru.org/autobuilds/ffmpeg/sources/ffmpeg-r22941-swscale-r31050.tar.bz2
>
> I don't have commit access, so I'm leaving this to someone who does now.
>
> Anyone?
>
> /LS
>
That's not a GPL violation since the sources only have to be provided on demand.

Dan


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