[FFmpeg-cvslog] configure: openssl is compatible with the LGPL.

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 08:01:08AM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
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> On 28 May 2012, at 21:22, Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:
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> > On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 08:38:40PM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> >> On 28 May 2012, at 15:50, git at videolan.org (Michael Niedermayer) wrote:
> >>> ffmpeg | branch: master | Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> | Mon May 28 15:36:35 2012 +0200| [f997ac1c8bc2124c4c6bf33ad17bc6f6cca0f84e] | committer: Michael Niedermayer
> >>> 
> >>> configure: openssl is compatible with the LGPL.
> >>> 
> >>> looking at the license i cannot see why they would be incompatible and
> >>> researching this matter a bit also turned up no reasons.
> >>> 
> >>> If i missed something, please dont hesitate to flame me and or revert
> >> 
> >> I believe that you at least missed that statically linked ffmpeg, ffprobe etc. do not follow the openssl requirement of printing those messages and are thus at least not redistributable.
> > 
> > Can you please elaborate on the problem you see ?
> > The way i understand the license compared to the modified BSD license
> > is it adds a requirement on the content of
> > advertisements mentioning features or use of openssl. I would have
> > thought that the mere act of distributing a statically linked
> > ffmpeg+openssl would not constitute such a advertisement. Thus it
> > would not affect the redistributability of such a binary if someone
> > choose to create one
> 
> Well, I thought about clause 6, though I am not sure what they mean by "retaining the acknowledgment". Compared to the previous and BSD clauses it doesn't restrict itself to the documentation though.

as a non lawyer and non native english id interpret "retain" as
"dont remove" we remove nothing.

but i can very easily ask openssl about these things if you write
a short list of questions

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