<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hi,<br><br></span></div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If I write an application that performs hardware decoding of H264 using FFmpeg/FFmpeg libraries and the NVIDIA NDEC SDK, what license agreement applies?</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For example, (as advised by <a href="https://developer.nvidia.com/ffmpeg">https://developer.nvidia.com/ffmpeg</a>), I would have to configure a build of FFmpeg as follows:<br><br><code>./configure --enable-cuda --enable-cuvid --enable-nvenc --enable-nonfree --enable-libnpp <br>--extra-cflags=-I/usr/local/cuda/include --extra-ldflags=-L/usr/local/cuda/lib64<br><br></code></span></div><code style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">I can see that in this case non-free code will be enabled. Will building FFmpeg in this way mean that GPLv2 now applies?<br></font></code></div><div><code style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">Will this and another NVIDIA license also apply on top of the resultant application?<br></font></code></div><div><code style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><br></font></code></div><div><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><code>Apologies if this is more of a question for NIVIDA, but so far I have had no response from them.<br><br></code><code><br></code></span></font></div><div><code style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">Best Regards,<br><br></font></code></div><div><code style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody">Kevin Neale<br></font></code></div><div><code style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody"><br></font></code></div><font face="UICTFontTextStyleBody" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><code></code></span></font></body></html>