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clarify GPL patch acceptance policy 

Originally committed as revision 4588 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
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Michael Niedermayer 2005-09-12 15:16:27 +00:00
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@ -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