On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 4:58 AM, Brad O'Hearne <[email protected]> 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. > > 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?
>From the x264 website: In addition to being free to use under the GNU GPL, x264 is also available under a commercial license from x264 LLC and CoreCodec. Contact [email protected] for more details. If you need h264 (software) encoding in ffmpeg libs in a commercial product and you don't want to distribute the source of your application, this is probably your only legal choice (IANAL). _______________________________________________ Libav-user mailing list [email protected] http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-user
