From 47a818323ba0fea16667031e0788756960a308ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gyan Doshi Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2018 17:04:56 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] doc/general.texi: clarify FDK-AAC licensing & usability Mnetion it can be used to decode as well. --- doc/general.texi | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/general.texi b/doc/general.texi index 2583006b14..8c3a04b078 100644 --- a/doc/general.texi +++ b/doc/general.texi @@ -46,9 +46,10 @@ upgrade FFmpeg's license to LGPL version 3 (or if you have enabled GPL components, GPL version 3) by passing @code{--enable-version3} to configure in order to use it. -The Fraunhofer AAC library is licensed under a license incompatible to the GPL -and is not known to be compatible to the LGPL. Therefore, you have to pass -@code{--enable-nonfree} to configure to use it. +The license of the Fraunhofer AAC library is incompatible with the GPL. +Therefore, for GPL builds, you have to pass @code{--enable-nonfree} to +configure in order to use it. To the best of our knowledge, it is +compatible with the LGPL. @end float @subsection OpenCORE AMR @@ -71,7 +72,7 @@ Then pass @code{--enable-libvo-amrwbenc} to configure to enable it. @subsection Fraunhofer AAC library -FFmpeg can make use of the Fraunhofer AAC library for AAC encoding. +FFmpeg can make use of the Fraunhofer AAC library for AAC decoding & encoding. Go to @url{http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencore-amr/} and follow the instructions for installing the library.