[FFmpeg-devel] License for iPhone app

Diego Biurrun diego
Thu Dec 10 12:44:23 CET 2009


On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 12:11:37PM +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> 
> On Thursday, 10 December 2009 at 07:37, Toshihide Tanaka wrote:
> > Now, I'm planing some commercial iPhone apps with FFmpeg.
> > I build FFmpeg libraries for iPhone, with great help from this ML.
> > 
> > But, as you know, Apple does not allow iPhone apps to link with local
> > dynamic libraries.
> > So, if I want to use FFmpeg in my iPhone app, the only way is to link
> > them as static libraries.
> > It violates LGPL, I think.
> 
> Why do you think so?

Because somebody published a text on our homepage, which - as I
predicted - would create more confusion than clarification.

Diego



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