Thank you very much for the reply, Rob. That was my understanding of it as well until I came across this article from Wikipedia under the section Patents and GNU Free Software licenses <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264#Patents_and_GNU_Free_Software_licenses> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264#Patents_and_GNU_Free_Software_licenses <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264#Patents_and_GNU_Free_Software_licenses> "Conversely, shipping (not necessarily implementing) a product in the U.S. which includes an LGPL H.264 decoder/encoder would be in violation of the software license of the codec implementation. In simple terms, the LGPL and GPL licenses require that any rights held in conjunction with distributing the code also apply to anyone receiving the code, and no further restrictions are put on distribution or use. If there is a requirement for a patent license to be sought, this is a clear violation of both the GPL and LGPL terms. ....."
Any comments on this? Thanks in advance. Regards, Dink On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Robert Swain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > 2008/11/12 dink chik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Can I use FFMPEG Library (LGPL) for a commercial program. I have a need > to > > use the H.264 decoder. Can I then distribute FFMPEG's dlls without > violating > > the patent license for H264 even if we pay the H264 patent fee? > > We are not lawyers but... > > - If you comply with the licenses appropriate for whatever bits of > FFmpeg software you use, you will have no problems from us. > - If you pay for license fees for the codecs you use, you should not > have any problems from them. > > Please read the LGPL and you should be able to see that you can use it > for a commercial program. You can even use GPL for commercial > programs, you just have to comply with its terms. > > Regards, > Rob > _______________________________________________ > libav-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/libav-user > _______________________________________________ libav-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/libav-user
