"Use it commercially" means to use the binary as a part of an commercial application. So the takeaway is the compile it without those flags. Thanks for these pointers. I had gone through the Legal page and wanted a second opinion from experts here as I am not professional legally qualified to make best sens of it. Thanks
On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 10:11 AM Carl Zwanzig <c...@tuunq.com> wrote: > On 9/22/2019 9:27 PM, kushal ghosh wrote: > > Yes. I took a published build of ffmpeg and want to use commercially. > > I am not very specific in using any of the licensed or patented parts of > > ffmpeg. > > So basically I want to n=know what the thing to be done so that I can > > commercially use it. > > I believe only LGPL part of it can be used freely? > > You need to actually read the GPL and LGPL text (or even the GPL FAQ), > that > will tell you what you can do and how. (And what does "use it > commercially" > mean, anyway? Sell it? Sell something -containing- parts of ffmpeg? > Something else?) > > See https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html and > https://www.ffmpeg.org/legal.html, they're fairly clear. > > > I'll go out on a limb and say that you should be OK if you distribute a > binary built without "--enable-gpl" or "--enable-nonfree", include or make > available the exact source code used to build that binary, and include the > appropriate copyright/license info (this is all on the "legal" page). > > > You also need to stop top-posting on this mailing list. > > Later, > > z! > not a lawyer, not giving legal advice, not even a committer to the ffmpeg > project > _______________________________________________ > ffmpeg-user mailing list > ffmpeg-user@ffmpeg.org > https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user > > To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email > ffmpeg-user-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe". _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-user mailing list ffmpeg-user@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-user-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".