Ping Chen wrote:
Hi, KevinFFmpeg consist both GPL'ed and LGPL'ed codecs/formats. The libavcodec used in Bluesky Realclass system is LGPL-licensed (see this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libavcodec ) while the libavformat contains both GPL'ed and LGPL'ed files. For details you can see this http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2006-September/014792.html . regards, Arthur 2009/7/26 Samuel Kevin <[email protected]>Hi, Bill: Do you mean that whether license of FFmpeg voilate ASL depends on which way users compile FFmpeg , GPL or LGPL? regards, Kevin
GPL code is always unacceptable for ASF projects. If ffmpeg includes any of the GPL codecs, then ASF code cannot have dependencies on ffmpeg.
Whether LGPL is acceptable or not depends on how the LGPL code is linked into the ASF code and build time. ASF projects can do dynamic (runtime) linking to LGPL code. ASF projects cannot statically link to LGPL code.
Bill
