-incompatible libraries
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-
-The Fraunhofer AAC library, FAAC and aacplus are under licenses which
-are incompatible with the GPLv2 and v3. We do not know for certain if their
-licenses are compatible with the LGPL.
-If you wish to enable these libraries, pass `--enable-nonfree` to configure.
-But note that if you enable any of these libraries the resulting binary will
-be under a complex license mix that is more restrictive than the LGPL and that
-may result in additional obligations. It is possible that these
-restrictions cause the resulting binary to be unredistributeable.
+### Incompatible libraries
+
+There are certain libraries you can combine with FFmpeg whose licenses are not
+compatible with the GPL and/or the LGPL. If you wish to enable these
+libraries, even in circumstances that their license may be incompatible, pass
+`--enable-nonfree` to configure. But note that if you enable any of these
+libraries the resulting binary will be under a complex license mix that is
+more restrictive than the LGPL and that may result in additional obligations.
+It is possible that these restrictions cause the resulting binary to be
+unredistributable.
+
+The Fraunhofer FDK AAC and OpenSSL libraries are under licenses which are
+incompatible with the GPLv2 and v3. To the best of our knowledge, they are
+compatible with the LGPL.
+
+The FAAC library is incompatible with all versions of GPL and LGPL.
+
+The NVENC library, while its header file is licensed under the compatible MIT
+license, requires a proprietary binary blob at run time, and is deemed to be
+incompatible with the GPL. We are not certain if it is compatible with the
+LGPL, but we require `--enable-nonfree` even with LGPL configurations in case
+it is not.