Re: [Libav-user] Question about the libraries' naming and rule #16

2011-06-30 Thread Soltic Lucas
Le 9 juin 2011 à 16:28, Soltic Lucas a écrit : It *sounds* like you are complying with the license. But I have not seen your application code, and I am not a lawyer. Phil Thank you all for you answers. And I'll take your advice Phil and I'll entirely read the LGPL, so that I can be

Re: [Libav-user] Question about the libraries' naming and rule #16

2011-06-30 Thread Phil Turmel
Hi Lucas, On 06/30/2011 01:41 PM, Soltic Lucas wrote: Le 9 juin 2011 à 16:28, Soltic Lucas a écrit : It *sounds* like you are complying with the license. But I have not seen your application code, and I am not a lawyer. Phil Thank you all for you answers. And I'll take your advice Phil

Re: [Libav-user] Question about the libraries' naming and rule #16

2011-06-08 Thread Hendrik Leppkes
Hi, On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 2:19 AM, Soltic Lucas soltic.lu...@gmail.com wrote: From what you say, I suppose I shouldn't even care for that kind of issue, and should statically link my library against FFmpeg, as LGPL is not a problem to me. Actually I'm getting a bit lost between those who

Re: [Libav-user] Question about the libraries' naming and rule #16

2011-06-08 Thread Phil Turmel
Hi Lucas, On 06/07/2011 08:19 PM, Soltic Lucas wrote: Le 7 juin 2011 à 17:29, Phil Turmel a écrit : Admirable intent, but you must make it possible for your users to substitute their own compilation of FFmpeg into your application. Dynamic linking is the simplest way to satify that

Re: [Libav-user] Question about the libraries' naming and rule #16

2011-06-08 Thread Alex Cohn
you still have to comply with the LGPL's rules on making the source code and build details available But do not fall into another extreme, your server should not provide an alternative branch for FFmpeg development. Keep a snapshot of the exact state of the LGPL code you've linked against

Re: [Libav-user] Question about the libraries' naming and rule #16

2011-06-07 Thread Phil Turmel
Hi Lucas, On 06/07/2011 09:47 AM, Soltic Lucas wrote: Hello, On the Legal page is written the following: *16. Do not rename FFmpeg dlls to some obfuscated name, but adding a suffix or prefix is fine (renaming avcodec.dll to MyProgDec.dll is not fine, but to avcodec-MyProg.dll is).* What

Re: [Libav-user] Question about the libraries' naming and rule #16

2011-06-07 Thread Kirill Gavrilov
The purpose here is to avoid having loads of dlls. Initially I was linking the static libraries to my own product. But I got issues with Visual Studio and wanted to give a try with dynamic linking. However I don't want the user to have to care about 5 dlls when he would actually need only one