On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 2:49 PM, Aaron Boxer <boxe...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 5:37 AM, Michael Niedermayer <mich...@niedermayer.cc> > wrote: > >> On Sun, Apr 03, 2016 at 05:31:25PM -0400, Aaron Boxer wrote: >> > Hi Folks, >> > >> > Here is a small patch to get FFmpeg working with both OpenJPEG master and >> > Grok master, for J2K support. The comment on the commit has all of the >> > details; the main change is to remove the OPJ_STATIC flag from configure, >> > so that FFmpeg can be configured with a dynamic build of both codecs. >> > >> >> > I also want to reiterate that because FFmpeg can be distributed under GPL >> > v3, and Grok is licensed under the AGPL, there are no licensing issues >> > regarding distributing FFmpeg together with Grok. >> >> FFmpeg support a wide varity of network protools, from low level >> tcp&udp to higher level http, ftp, rtp, rtsp, rtmp, mms, ... >> >> the AGPL requires "if you modify the Program, your modified version must >> prominently offer all users interacting with it remotely through a computer >> network (if your version supports such interaction) an opportunity to >> receive the Corresponding Source of your version by providing access to the >> Corresponding Source from a network server at no charge, through some >> standard or customary means of facilitating copying of software." >> >> yet you here suggest to link AGPL software to GPL where the GPL sw >> will not offer any source though any of its quite numerous network >> interfaces >> >> Iam no lawyer so i dont know if you can do that or not but >> either the combination needs to offer source code through its network >> protocols or you just suggested to circumvent your own licenses main >> point >> >> > Here is clarification from the horse's mouth AKA FSF:
You should understand one thing: For us, its not really about if its legally possible to link to such a library, but if we want to open the door to such licensed libraries. And the answer to that question seems to go in favor of no. - Hendrik _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel