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    avcodec: Remove libaacplus · 9ba54c1b
    Timothy Gu authored
    TODO: bump minor
    
    It's inferior in quality to fdk-aac and has an arguably more problematic
    license.
    
    As early as 2012, a HydrogenAudio user reported:
    
    > It has however one huge advantage: much better quality at low bitrates than
    > faac and libaacplus.
    
    (https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php?PHPSESSID=ckiq394pdglka0kj2fin6ij8t7&topic=95989.msg804633#msg804633)
    
    I myself have made a few spectrograms for a comparison of the two
    encoders as well. The FDK output is consistently better than the
    libaacplus one, in all bitrates I tested.
    
    libaacplus license is 3GPP + LGPLv2. 3GPP copyright notice is completely
    proprietory, as follows:
    
    > No part may be reproduced except as authorized by written permission.
    >
    > The copyright and the foregoing restriction extend to reproduction in
    > all media.
    >
    > © 2008, 3GPP Organizational Partners (ARIB, ATIS, CCSA, ETSI, TTA, TTC).
    >
    > All rights reserved.
    
    (The latest 26410-d00 zip from 3GPP has the same notice, but the copyright
    year is changed to 2015)
    
    The copyright part of the FDK AAC license (section 2) is a copyleft
    license that permits redistribution under certain conditions (and
    therefore the LGPL + libfdk-aac combination is not prohibited by
    configure):
    
    > 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.
    >
    > The name of Fraunhofer may not be used to endorse or promote products
    > derived from this library without prior written permission.
    >
    > You may not charge copyright license fees for anyone to use, copy or
    > distribute the FDK AAC Codec software or your modifications thereto.
    >
    > Your modified versions of the FDK AAC Codec must carry prominent
    > notices stating that you changed the software and the date of any
    > change. For modified versions of the FDK AAC Codec, the term
    > "Fraunhofer FDK AAC Codec Library for Android" must be replaced by the
    > term "Third-Party Modified Version of the Fraunhofer FDK AAC Codec
    > Library for Android."
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