2009/8/21 Bruno Albuquerque <bga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > David McPaul wrote: > >>>>> As long as installing additional packages is painless for the end >>>>> user, this will not really be a major setback. (On the other hand, it >>>>> would be nice if such licensing issues would not dictate what to >>>>> include in the base system.) >>>> >>>> I think I already stated that I would be OK with this as a reasonable >>>> alternative if things got too muddy. >>> >>> To cut this ac3 thing out, the ac3 stuff in FFmpeg trunk is licenced as >>> LGPL. >>> So we can just leave out ac3 for now, and include it in further releases. >> >> Are you sure about that? The ac3 code in ffmpeg is based on the >> liba52 library which is GPL. >> >> There are still references to liba52 last I looked. >> >> Our ac3 decoder is based on it as well. > > > In any case: > > http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/external/opencore.git;a=tree;f=codecs_v2/audio;h=6a295a75ee097ffda17d8e3aca659b4949d07bf3;hb=HEAD > > This is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license, which should be no problem > for us, and there is also a MP3 codec there). > > And for video: > > http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/external/opencore.git;a=tree;f=codecs_v2/video;h=d2c55e2a84ce511ae97d3b2c0fc53b2c9f9e537f;hb=HEAD > > H263 and H264. These might be worth looking at. -- Cheers David