On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 08:58:54PM -0700, Brad O'Hearne wrote:
> I have a need for processing of h.264 video in a commercial (for sale) 
> product. I am aware that there are more or less two flavors of FFmpeg, one 
> with GPL'd code compiled in, and another with GPL'd code disabled from 
> compilation. In general, GPL governs the former, while LGPL governs the 
> latter. I'm not aware of the exact functional boundaries of each, but I am 
> aware that libx264 is apparently GPL'd, so that is a no-op for any commercial 
> product. 
> 

Yes, a detail of what is under GPL is available here:
http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=blob;f=LICENSE;hb=HEAD

> My question is this: is there *any* h.264 processing capability within Libav 
> that does not fall under GPL, that is usable in a commercial product, and if 
> so what are its limitations? Can Libav be used to handle h.264 processing in 
> a commercial product (obviously without libx264), or no? 
> 

The h264 decoder is under LGPL.

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Note: the project is FFmpeg, not Libav.

-- 
Clément B.

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