RFC: New dependency on FFmpeg?

[Josh DuBois]

On 8/20/15 2:47 PM, Andrew Eikum wrote:
> Wine packagers and developers, do you have any thoughts or objections
> to depending on FFmpeg/libav's libavutils and libavcodec for xaudio2
> support?
The FFmpeg web-site says FFmpeg may be found in both GPL and LGPL forms:

" FFmpeg is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) 
version 2.1 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.1.html> or 
later. However, FFmpeg incorporates several optional parts and 
optimizations that are covered by the GNU General Public License (GPL) 
version 2 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html> or 
later. If those parts get used the GPL applies to all of FFmpeg."

It seems difficult to say when wine loads it which license applies. I 
think this is an area where things may not be entirely clear 
license-wise, but couldn't that pose a problem?
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