Commit c7279693 authored by Diego Biurrun's avatar Diego Biurrun

Add note about nonfree license of libfaac.

Originally committed as revision 18735 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
parent 5b05059d
......@@ -23,9 +23,10 @@ Some external libraries, e.g. libx264, are under GPL and can be used in
conjunction with FFmpeg. They require --enable-gpl to be passed to configure
as well.
The nonfree external libraries libamrnb and libamrwb can be hooked up in FFmpeg.
You need to pass --enable-nonfree to configure to enable them. Employ this
option with care as FFmpeg then becomes nonfree and unredistributable.
The nonfree external libraries libamrnb, libamrwb and libfaac can be hooked up
in FFmpeg. You need to pass --enable-nonfree to configure to enable them. Employ
this option with care as FFmpeg then becomes nonfree and unredistributable.
Note that libfaac claims to be LGPL, but is not.
There are a handful of files under other licensing terms, namely:
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