[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/2] LICENSE: Complete GPL'd external libraries list

[Timothy Gu]

On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 7:47 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos at ag.or.at> wrote:
> Timothy Gu <timothygu99 <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I don't think providing a warning is necessary
>> because we don't do that with 3-clause BSD
>
> Is there an external library for FFmpeg that is
> under 3-clause BSD?

Yes. To name a few, libvorbis and libtheora.

> The reason I ask is that I believe the
> advertisement clause is a problem for the
> distributor that cannot be solved in
> configure (but as said, this may be wrong).
>
> Or in other words: I suspect it is possible
> to completely fulfill the requirements of
> the libfreetype license without using
> --enable-gpl.

First, I am not a lawyer or any good at lawyer stuff, so I cannot read
the license and say "oh they are (not) compatible". I also failed to
find a proof that 3-clause BSD or Freetype License is compatible with
LGPL v2.

(So I guess the answer to your question is I don't know?)

Maybe I'll send a email to freetype and fsf to confirm this.

Timothy