On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 2:35 PM, Phil Turmel <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/09/2015 02:47 AM, Yury Udovichenko wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Our company is in process of purchasing binary version of x264 library >> from the legal representative of the library owner. This means we are >> not required to open the sources of our application. >> >> In addition we would like to use ffmpeg as part of the project but to >> use x264 library, we have to use "--enable-gpl" flag. >> This makes the project eligible for opening all sources under GPL. >> >> Our question is how do we build ffmpeg in a way not to be eligible for >> GPL? E.g. can we fix the build system not to use --enable-gpl parameter >> and release ffmpeg part under LGPL? > > You quite probably cannot. > > The code in ffmpeg that utilizes the x264 library is under the GPL, it > appears. Buying a commercial license to x264 doesn't give you any > rights to code in other projects. >
Actually that is incorrect. The wrapper code in FFmpeg which uses x264 is LGPL. If you have purchased a commercial license for x264, its generally accepted that you can remove the configure check to remove the GPL limitation from x264 for your own builds. - Hendrik _______________________________________________ Libav-user mailing list [email protected] http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-user
