As has been stated, it seems vanishingly unlikely there will be a relicense.
However, it seems there is a misconception about the GPL here: On Tue, 28 Nov 2023 at 10:24, Suminda Sirinath Salpitikorala Dharmasena <sirinath19...@gmail.com> wrote: >*GPL means that all forks need to be public, not that the modifications need to > be upstreamed. The GPL does not require "all forks need to be public". A private entity (company, organisation) can use a GPL'd project internally and they never have to release their code. [0] This comes up so frequently it has a FAQ: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#GPLRequireSourcePostedPublic Of course, if the product is released, users have the right to request a copy of the source to the product. That is of course the point of copyleft- if you build on the freely-available work of other people, others should be able to use your work freely too. Cheers, Rob -- [0]: Note that another option would be calling an ffmpeg binary from a (publically-released) proprietary program, but naturally the source of ffmpeg (including any modifications) would need to be available on request; and if the two programs had sufficient shared state, they may be considered as a single program and so again covered by the GPL. _______________________________________________ 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".
