Bug#619885: ITP: vo-aacenc -- Free AAC encoder

[Martin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>]

Hi Fabian,

On Mon, 28 Mar 2011, Fabian Greffrath wrote:

> What is the difference between VisualOn and Opencore? Why are those two 
> codecs separate from opencore-amr, will they get integrated in the 
> future?

For a few different reasons - the OpenCORE code is copyrighted by 
PacketVideo, while this new code drop is copyrighted by VisualOn. I'm in 
discussions with PacketVideo about relicensing the OpenCORE code to apache 
2.0 + LGPL2+ (to licensewise ease use and integration in applications), 
but that wouldn't cover the new VisualOn code. Also, the AAC encoder 
doesn't really share anything with the AMR codecs, so integrating them in 
the same library woulndn't make much sense.

// Martin