Doug Stevenson <dougn...@hyper-aware.com> added the comment: It seems to me that if the instructions on FFmpeg's legal page are followed, then you are intentionally avoiding all issues with the LGPL license:
http://www.ffmpeg.org/legal.html If you do this, you are making it easy for people to experiment with FFmpeg under Android, which in turn creates an environment where the open source community can feed improvements back into FFmpeg, which will indirectly improve RockPlayer. You only stand to gain from this kind of transparency. By holding back and dodging questions as has been done on the RockPlayer forums so far, it raises concerns about the spirit in which FFmpeg's LGPL license is being observed. I will point out that the first zip of source I obtained from the url that was posted above did not even contain the LGPL license file. Today it is present, and that's a start. I'll also point out that the included README is just plain wrong. It says to reference documentation in the doc directory, which does not exist. It also says to run ./configure, which does not exist. The INSTALL file is equally incorrect and mentions nothing about the end game of producing a ffmpeg.so which can be linked into Android applications. ________________________________________________ FFmpeg issue tracker <iss...@roundup.ffmpeg.org> <https://roundup.ffmpeg.org/issue2101> ________________________________________________
