[haiku-development] Re: FFmpeg and licensing
- From: Cian Duffy <myob87@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 16:22:09 +0100
On 13 July 2014 15:21, Augustin Cavalier <waddlesplash@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Currently, we build FFmpeg with none of their licensing options [1]. A lot
> of their codecs are under the LGPL or GPL. I understand that since Haiku
> has proprietary software using our media libraries (e.g. TuneTracker), we
> shouldn't enable GPL'd code. However, does anyone see a reason why we can't
> enable LGPL'd code?
>
> I was under the impression that ffmpeg itself *is* LGPL licenced, along
with all the codecs that we have enabled - and only the GPL code is disabled
Has something fundamentally changed?
Cian
> [1] https://bitbucket.org/haikuports/haikuports/src/
> master/media-video/ffmpeg/ffmpeg-0.10.2.recipe?at=master#cl-96
>
>
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