On 5 February 2012 16:38, Carl Eugen Hoyos <[email protected]> wrote: > John Dexter <jdxsolutions@...> writes: > > > 2. I had some concerns reading about the legal side, GPL and LGPL. Our > > software is totally closed source and while we use LGPL libraries, it > > sounded like some parts of ffmpeg are GPL-only. Will this realistically > > affect me > > It is your choice if you compile FFmpeg with support for GPL-parts > (which makes the whole library GPL and forbids linking against your > proprietary application) or without. > So only you know if it affects you or not. >
I was aware some parts are GPL only and you can compile without those parts... but the legal page doesn't say which, and whether they 'matter'. But you follow on with > (Or in other words: It will only affect you if you want H264 encoding > but are not willing to buy a commercial x264 license.) > So is that the only major restriction? It sounds fairly major since I'm fairly sure our client demands H264 as the primary format. It's hardly part of ffmpeg I know, but any clarification what I can['t] do here would be awesome so I can clearly explain why (if) I can't provide what they consider the standard. Feel free to direct me elsewhere to discuss that topic. > > Please consider reading the License Compliance Checklist on > http://ffmpeg.org/legal.html and if you think anything is not > clear on this page, please report! > Since you mention it, I would prefer a list of what I MUST do and a list of what you PREFER I do, in terms of open-source etiquette :) Thanks!
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