[FFmpeg-devel] Am I violating the license?

[Reinhard Tartler]

"Jason Garrett-Glaser" <darkshikari at gmail.com> writes:

> 2.  Include the source of ffmpeg, or host a copy of the source used on
> your website.  Note that this source must be the same source used to
> compile ffmpeg.

One could argue that since ffmpeg is included in almost every
distribution, it has become a 'system library' and falls under the
"special exception"-clause of section 3, GPL (version 2). He doesn't
seem to modify ffmpeg but relys on prepackaged versions of ffmpeg to
build and run.

However I agree that providing a tarball (or the source package of his
distribution) with the exact ffmpeg version used to compile the binaries
on the website would take you on the safe side.

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