On 23 February 2012 09:41, jan hölscher <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 2012/2/23 John Dexter <[email protected]> >> >> On 23 February 2012 01:19, Phil Turmel <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On 02/22/2012 10:53 AM, Benjamin Gamisch wrote: >> > [...] >> >> I would appreciate an answer whether I am allowed to use the FFMPEG.exe >> >> file or not. >> > >> > Per your screenshot, probably not. If you distribute FFmpeg, you must >> > follow the license. There's no exception for non-commercial use. You must >> > provide or offer to provide the source code for the version of FFmpeg you >> > ship. >> >> In cases where just the .EXE is distributed and used, isn't standard >> practice simply to include a license.txt which has the GPL license, >> credits use of ffmpeg and provides a link, etc - and to add a notice >> to your in-app credits section, installer wizard, etc if applicable? >> _______________________________________________ >> Libav-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-user > > > this could be interresting for you! > > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#NFUseGPLPlugins
Yep - his case is to simply run the .EXE from his application (emulating automated command-line usage basically). So his app avoids the 'viral' nature of GPL but he still has some responsibilities. See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9162234/packaging-a-gpled-utility-with-an-application _______________________________________________ Libav-user mailing list [email protected] http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-user
