[vlc-devel] [vlc-commits] Add a new aac audio encoder module based on the fdkaac library. It works correctly up to 5. 1 as the current version of the library has problems with 7.1.

[Rafaël Carré]

Le 2012-10-26 12:27, Sergio Ammirata a écrit :
> vlc | branch: master | Sergio Ammirata <sergio at ammirata.net> | Thu Oct 25 11:10:07 2012 -0400| [503feeaf87af2f367617a0f6465ef553b86e1cc3] | committer: Ilkka Ollakka
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> Add a new aac audio encoder module based on the fdkaac library. It works correctly up to 5.1 as the current version of the library has problems with 7.1.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ilkka Ollakka <ileoo at videolan.org>

fdk-aac license says:

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3.    NO PATENT LICENSE

NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED LICENSES TO ANY PATENT CLAIMS, including without 
limitation the patents of Fraunhofer,
ARE GRANTED BY THIS SOFTWARE LICENSE. Fraunhofer provides no warranty of 
patent non-infringement with
respect to this software.

You may use this FDK AAC Codec software or modifications thereto only 
for purposes that are authorized
by appropriate patent licenses.
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Do we need a --enable-nonfree configure option to enable it, just like 
libav/ffmpeg do ?

(And we might add a --enable-gpl as well to track which modules are GPL 
and which are LGPL)