Commit 291dcdb3 authored by Michael Niedermayer's avatar Michael Niedermayer

clarify GPL patch acceptance policy

Originally committed as revision 4588 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
parent ec9127c4
......@@ -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
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