GPL is incompatible with FDK-AAC - redistribution permission needed for Fedora/RPMFusion

[gombosg]

See this:

FSF issued a clear statement that the fdk-aac is GPL incompatible
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#fdk
Can you clarify with upstream about this ?
Please ask upstream to send an email to explicitly allow us to redistribute
the software when built with fdk-aac.
Please send the email at root@rpmfusion.org from an upstream maintainer (using public maillist list).
The email will be added to the scm if allowed.
Thx in advances.

2 issues:

• GPL incompatibility, see here, and for fdk-aac-free, here
• From your public email, please send an email to the above address, cc me, too (gombosg at gmail dotcom)

e.g.

I, xx, upstream developer of the pulseaudio-modules-bluetooth-freeworld package explicitly allow RPMFusion to redistribute the software when built with fdk-aac libraries.

Thanks!

[EHfive]

That's fine.
I just sent the mail.

[gombosg]

Thanks! If this is not good for them, I'll just disable AAC support. Have you thought about using ffmpeg AAC? Or is it not possible?
AAC license seems to be quite problematic.

[EHfive]

It's totally possible because modules require only LC-AAC.
But we might loss some features like vbr, AAC afterburner .

[EHfive]

I didn't implement dynamic loading upon fdk-aac because of it's complex structures or symbols in header files;
By using ffmpeg for AAC support, we could share the current dynamic loading codes upon ffmpeg.
I'll look into it when i have free time.

Closing the issue.