On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 1:30 AM, pulkomandy <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Also, this is exactly why we have the media plugins architecture. A > commercial app making use of the media kit does not directly link > ffmpeg, and can be used with other plugins if needed. Thus, it is > considered separate software and is not affected by the GPL. There are > some extra tricks when packaging both such an app and the ffmpeg plugin > on the same media (ie our release CD), but stippi already pointed the > way to solve this: just move the ffmpeg plugin to a separate package so > it is really independant from the rest of the system, and make Installer > able to not install it. > Since FFmpeg does practically all our media decoding, I don't think removing it is such a good idea. With that being said, the only software we ship on the CD that is closed source is liblayout and Wonderbrush. Neither of these apps uses the Media Kit, so I think we can be pretty safe with the release CD. If someone makes a custom CD with other closed-source software, I think the solution for them is to build their own FFmpeg package. -Augustin