Why is FAAD GPL while FAAC is not

[Olivier Crête]

On Tue, 2013-05-21 at 08:03 -0700, Wes Miller wrote:
> Is it possible to know why specific GST plugins are GPL?  For example, FAAD
> is GPL while FAAC is LGPL.  What makes FAAD "ugly"?  Would I likely find the
> answer in the source?  Are such answers about any ugly plugin to be found in
> their sources?

I believe the answer is pretty simple.. libfaad is under the GPL,
libfaac under the LGPL.

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Olivier Crête
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