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| author | Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at> | 2005-09-12 15:16:27 +0000 |
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| committer | Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at> | 2005-09-12 15:16:27 +0000 |
| commit | 291dcdb356690308e91eef16af715dc4c45ff5bd (patch) | |
| tree | 9fd570d03f90588f084c9d24e0550f165235d4b4 /doc/faq.texi | |
| parent | ec9127c4a405bfb4747e8bc6f550f1c5d052810b (diff) | |
clarify GPL patch acceptance policy
Originally committed as revision 4588 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/faq.texi')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/faq.texi | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/faq.texi b/doc/faq.texi index 371b4f9ed4..93867fc65d 100644 --- a/doc/faq.texi +++ b/doc/faq.texi @@ -184,9 +184,9 @@ you need the debug information, used the *_g versions. @section I do not like the LGPL, can I contribute code under the GPL instead -yes, ffmpeg contains GPL and LGPL code, the GPL code is only compiled if -'--enable-gpl' is passed to configure in which case the resulting binary will -be covered by the GPL instead of the LGPL +yes, as long as the code is optional and can easily and cleanly be placed under +#ifdef CONFIG_GPL without breaking anythng, so for example +a new codec or filter would be ok under GPL while a bugfix to LGPL code wont @section I want to compile xyz.c alone but my compier produced many errors |