<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 5 February 2012 16:38, Carl Eugen Hoyos <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cehoyos@ag.or.at">cehoyos@ag.or.at</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">John Dexter <jdxsolutions@...> writes:<br>
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> 2. I had some concerns reading about the legal side, GPL and LGPL. Our<br>
> software is totally closed source and while we use LGPL libraries, it<br>
> sounded like some parts of ffmpeg are GPL-only. Will this realistically<br>
> affect me<br>
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</div>It is your choice if you compile FFmpeg with support for GPL-parts<br>
(which makes the whole library GPL and forbids linking against your<br>
proprietary application) or without.<br>
So only you know if it affects you or not.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I was aware some parts are GPL only and you can compile without those parts... but the legal page doesn't say which, and whether they 'matter'. But you follow on with</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
(Or in other words: It will only affect you if you want H264 encoding<br>
but are not willing to buy a commercial x264 license.)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>So is that the only major restriction? It sounds fairly major since I'm fairly sure our client demands H264 as the primary format. It's hardly part of ffmpeg I know, but any clarification what I can['t] do here would be awesome so I can clearly explain why (if) I can't provide what they consider the standard. Feel free to direct me elsewhere to discuss that topic.</div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Please consider reading the License Compliance Checklist on<br>
<a href="http://ffmpeg.org/legal.html" target="_blank">http://ffmpeg.org/legal.html</a> and if you think anything is not<br>
clear on this page, please report!<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Since you mention it, I would prefer a list of what I MUST do and a list of what you PREFER I do, in terms of open-source etiquette :) </div><div><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div></div>