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command line encoder frontend for libfdk-aac
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Can we stop license rumors? #35

Closed tico-tico closed 5 years ago

tico-tico commented 5 years ago

There is a bunch of weird sjw guys spreading misinformation about FDK-AAC license, so I have a proposal to stop the rumors and just include the FDK-AAC license directly in the executable. It is required to distribute the license with the binary anyway. The license said "or other materials", so I think that binary guts are quite an "other material".

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted without payment of copyright license fees provided that you satisfy the following conditions:

You must retain the complete text of this software license in redistributions of the FDK AAC Codec or your modifications thereto in source code form.

You must retain the complete text of this software license in the documentation and/or other materials provided with redistributions of the FDK AAC Codec or your modifications thereto in binary form. You must make available free of charge copies of the complete source code of the FDK AAC Codec and your modifications thereto to recipients of copies in binary form.

Therefore I propose to do something like this https://github.com/nu774/fdkaac/compare/master...tico-tico:fdk_license . I'll do the pull request if you like the idea.

nu774 commented 5 years ago

Hi, As far as I know, distros such as Debian or Cygwin include copyright text of the FDK codec in their libfdk-aac package distribution (it's installed under /user/share/doc/ or something). fdkaac and libfdk-aac.so are different thing, and they do need to provide license documentation for codec itself (libfdk-aac.so) in order to distribute libfdk-aac.so. In other words, I don't think it's something that fdkaac repo has to take care of. We are not re-distributing the FDK codec.