[Slackbuilds-users] ffmpeg and "non-redistributable binary"

[Andrzej Telszewski]

On 12/03/16 23:07, Black Rider wrote:
> El Sat, 12 Mar 2016 23:04:07 +0100, Andrzej Telszewski escribió:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Some of the dependencies for _ffmpeg_ make it "non-redistributable
>> binary".
>>
>> I'd like to ask what does it mean?
>>
>> Does it mean it's forbidden to redistribute the binary because of law
>> restrictions?
>>
>> Or does it mean the binary will contain instructions that cannot be
>> executed on, for example, previous generations of the CPU?
>
> It means that copyright/patents can make the resulting binary non-
> distributable according to the law.
>

Thanks!

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Pozdrawiam,
Best regards,
Andrzej Telszewski