From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pd0-f173.google.com (mail-pd0-f173.google.com [209.85.192.173]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 785C460557; Thu, 9 Jul 2015 14:57:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pdbep18 with SMTP id ep18so166474866pdb.1; Thu, 09 Jul 2015 07:57:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=ESNRoYT5EzxMV28IJ19OdWxGVuAzc0CBoHIuU2kLBIk=; b=C+DJzfsQHtsYbcABe1LyhcZOFcwLnlhfECpADP0RuufmC/eC3eySyAiCMMKLb679Ic cAxiVjxtouBirEVm4swPuwdjwJlnN9eX5/Dt6YzMjQlHCztad+qrmc2wOXieRqusQL4Z +szDNg5ksOgfCA2m9S/Iucv5k5Ui1XT8DFD/9h/FjBSZ/k4Fxrha0pUUp3ITgJHoB3WS bnzbVvaI8fhQjZvnPqpnorQpXwVdg6BVnuH8BpCn/falHxJPPNNQAnjnRPvpV2vCB8U6 ZxzrPvyQTQo7Z5h8Ewb74qhrQTKSE7V1nQWLLKx8pvVXUMlzN2NmKp6SYkagd9+T9Ne1 +xjA== X-Received: by 10.67.4.4 with SMTP id ca4mr32040833pad.80.1436453832461; Thu, 09 Jul 2015 07:57:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?IPv6:2601:202:4000:1239:1f1:f366:7a5c:28ff? ([2601:202:4000:1239:1f1:f366:7a5c:28ff]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id qp10sm6241740pbc.88.2015.07.09.07.57.10 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 09 Jul 2015 07:57:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <559E8BC3.2060300@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2015 07:57:07 -0700 From: akuster808 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Eggleton , openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org, openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org References: <2219152.1ss8pFxefq@peggleto-mobl.ger.corp.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <2219152.1ss8pFxefq@peggleto-mobl.ger.corp.intel.com> Subject: Re: RFC: libav vs. ffmpeg, redux X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2015 14:57:13 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 07/09/2015 03:24 AM, Paul Eggleton wrote: > Hi all, > > A few years ago we made the switch from ffmpeg to libav (a mostly drop-in > compatible fork), with fairly good justification at the time. However, it looks > like Debian has just made the switch back to ffmpeg, citing a number of reasons > - most notably more responsive security issue patching in recent history. > Here's a page with their full reasoning: > > https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/libav-provider/ffmpeg > > Gstreamer (gst-libav, specifically) has also just recently made the switch back > for its internal copy: > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=751607 > > What do people think? Should we be looking to make the switch back in OE as > well? > That make sense to me. Also libav has LICENSE_FLAGS = "commercial" so the change which will simplify things too. - armin > Cheers, > Paul >