John Dexter <jdxsolutions@...> writes: > (Or in other words: It will only affect you if you want H264 encoding > but are not willing to buy a commercial x264 license.) > > Sorry, I need to ask about that in more detail after more thought. > There are 2 separate issues here it seems... > > > Whether I can use ffmpeg libraries to encode H264 without making my > entire application GPL? > > Whether I need to pay for a H264 licenseĀ
> Is the situation I can use ffmpeg L-GPL if I pay for a H264 license, > but without buying that license I can only use H264 for full GPL? > Or am I totally misunderstanding the situation? The situation is that if you link your application against a GPL'd library (or against libavcodec linking against a GPL'd library) then your application gets GPL'd itself (or you are not complying with the GPL, making you a copyright violator). The LGPL allows you to link against non-free object files as long as you follow some restrictions - see http://ffmpeg.org/legal.html - so if your H264 encoding library is *not* licensed under the GPL (but a proprietary or "commercial" license) there should be no problem. The remaining questions are certainly not within the scope of this mailing list, please visit http://x264licensing.com/ Please set your mailer to "plain text" instead of html, Carl Eugen _______________________________________________ Libav-user mailing list Libav-user@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-user