[FFmpeg-devel] (no subject)

Carl Eugen Hoyos cehoyos at ag.or.at
Sun Dec 23 11:24:32 CET 2012


Marcus Johnson <bumblebritches57 <at> gmail.com> writes:

> I do have a few questions though, will I be allowed to use the code I
> submit to ffmpeg in any way I see fit IE can I use my code under a bsd
> style license instead of the GPL?

As http://ffmpeg.org/developer.html#Development-Policy explains, 
the (L)GPL is not the only acceptable license, but I would 
expect the DTS-HD MA decoder to reuse large parts of FFmpeg 
which means it may not be easy to use it under a less restrictive 
license than the LGPL.

Carl Eugen



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