On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 08:58:54PM -0700, Brad O'Hearne wrote: > I have a need for processing of h.264 video in a commercial (for sale) > product. I am aware that there are more or less two flavors of FFmpeg, one > with GPL'd code compiled in, and another with GPL'd code disabled from > compilation. In general, GPL governs the former, while LGPL governs the > latter. I'm not aware of the exact functional boundaries of each, but I am > aware that libx264 is apparently GPL'd, so that is a no-op for any commercial > product. >
Yes, a detail of what is under GPL is available here: http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=blob;f=LICENSE;hb=HEAD > My question is this: is there *any* h.264 processing capability within Libav > that does not fall under GPL, that is usable in a commercial product, and if > so what are its limitations? Can Libav be used to handle h.264 processing in > a commercial product (obviously without libx264), or no? > The h264 decoder is under LGPL. [...] Note: the project is FFmpeg, not Libav. -- Clément B.
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