Carl Eugen Hoyos <ceho...@rainbow.studorg.tuwien.ac.at> added the comment:
When I originally read (and wrote) that the version of libavcodec that was used is under GPL, I did not test myself, but believed the author. When Dark Shikari wrote "so he can replace the GPL libavcodec with an LGPL one", I was convinced that the used libavcodec version in (the original) dgavcdec109.zip is under GPL (again without checking). I downloaded the new zip file today which contains the identical libavcodec.dll, but also sources (of ffdshow-tryout) and a changed libavcodec.txt file that claims (!) libavcodec is under LGPL. That made me believe that the claim that the used libavcodec is under GPL was always wrong and that would also explain what is meant with "technicalities" (although I have to add that we also require distributors of the LGPL version of libavcodec to comply with the license, so I certainly disagree here in any case). Unfortunately, when looking at the sources, it gets clear that they are not LGPL, but GPL: All "#if CONFIG_GPL' were simply removed (the lines, not the blocks). _____________________________________________________ FFmpeg issue tracker <iss...@roundup.ffmpeg.org> <https://roundup.ffmpeg.org/roundup/ffmpeg/issue1451> _____________________________________________________
