clarify GPL patch acceptance policy

Originally committed as revision 4588 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
pull/126/head
Michael Niedermayer 20 years ago
parent ec9127c4a4
commit 291dcdb356
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      doc/faq.texi

@ -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 @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 yes, as long as the code is optional and can easily and cleanly be placed under
'--enable-gpl' is passed to configure in which case the resulting binary will #ifdef CONFIG_GPL without breaking anythng, so for example
be covered by the GPL instead of the LGPL 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 @section I want to compile xyz.c alone but my compier produced many errors

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