----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl Eugen Hoyos" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2014 1:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Libav-user] reduce dll size
Camera Man <i.like.privacy.too@...> writes:
However, the license (LGPL) requires that you let
user upgrade the library without your help. That is
usually easy to achieve when you ship .dlls, but
not as easy when you do static linking. If you use
a GPL component (e.g. the x264 encoder), you will
need to make your project GPL as well
You are of course right that it is (slightly) easier
to fullfill the LGPL if you provide dynamic libraries
instead of linking static libraries but we agree that
in both cases it is possible to fullfill the
requirements.
Kind of silly though to allow user to update the ffmpeg libraries. Every time I get new ffmpeg libraries I test it for quite a long
time and not unusual to find something broken or something has changed that leads a break somewhere else. Don't know about you but
things need to work for me and if user is just adhoc changing the libraries then that's a problem.
But I wonder now if there is a reason that your next
sentence speaks about the GPL: Don't you agree that it
makes no difference if you link GPL'd libraries
statically or dynamically?
Carl Eugen
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