Commit 47a81832 authored by Gyan Doshi's avatar Gyan Doshi

doc/general.texi: clarify FDK-AAC licensing & usability

Mnetion it can be used to decode as well.
parent e4006a47
......@@ -46,9 +46,10 @@ upgrade FFmpeg's license to LGPL version 3 (or if you have enabled
GPL components, GPL version 3) by passing @code{--enable-version3} to configure in
order to use it.
The Fraunhofer AAC library is licensed under a license incompatible to the GPL
and is not known to be compatible to the LGPL. Therefore, you have to pass
@code{--enable-nonfree} to configure to use it.
The license of the Fraunhofer AAC library is incompatible with the GPL.
Therefore, for GPL builds, you have to pass @code{--enable-nonfree} to
configure in order to use it. To the best of our knowledge, it is
compatible with the LGPL.
@end float
@subsection OpenCORE AMR
......@@ -71,7 +72,7 @@ Then pass @code{--enable-libvo-amrwbenc} to configure to enable it.
@subsection Fraunhofer AAC library
FFmpeg can make use of the Fraunhofer AAC library for AAC encoding.
FFmpeg can make use of the Fraunhofer AAC library for AAC decoding & encoding.
Go to @url{http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencore-amr/} and follow the
instructions for installing the library.
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