the license for libavcodec is stated in
/usr/share/doc/libavcodec52/copyright. If something is unclear there,
that would be a serious bug.
an extra lgpl flavor (== build pass) would be theoretically possible,
but this would cause quite some additional work. I'd consider this if
someone else volunt
I see two issues with the current situation:
1. The fact that all Ubuntu packages using the ffmpeg libraries are
under the GPL is not stated explicitly anywhere. That can cause
inadvertent license breaches.
2. There is no way to use the gstreamer (or libavg etc.) package under
the LGPL using the
I totally agree, that it'd be easy using gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg and
similar packages (libavg for instance) in GPL mode, but they aren't
released that way. Check http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/ for instance:
"GStreamer is released under the LGPL."
So we need to consider compiling ffmpeg in LGPL mo