If LGPL allows proprietary software to _use_ an LGPL library, why would it
be a problem for Apache-licensed software to use an LGPL library?
In the worst case, if we use the GPL version, that would make a special GPL
version of FreeRDP since the licensing would likely propagate.
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Vic Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Recently, I have started working on the video(or media) redirection on
> this branch and have done some initial work:
>
> https://github.com/llyzs/FreeRDP/tree/tsmf
>
> For those who don't know about this channel, it enables redirecting raw
> video/audio data to the client so that streams can be decoded on the
> client and play smoothly and seamlessly on the RDP client window.
>
> Now the topic. In order to decode wide range of video/audio content,
> FFmpeg should be a good choice. However, FFmpeg is a GPL/LGPL library,
> and it has GPL dependencies (libx264 for example). There are a lot of
> limitations in order to use FFmpeg as LGPL. See
>
> http://www.ffmpeg.org/legal.html
>
> Most Linux distributions compiled FFmpeg as GPL for obvious reason. And
> if I understand it correctly, it will not be legal to compile
> Apache-licensed FreeRDP if it links to FFmpeg. If FFmpeg is compiled as
> LGPL, that would mean some codec is missing, noticeably H.264, an this
> will be annoying.
>
> Please share you opinion.
>
> Vic
>
>
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