[FFmpeg-devel] [ANNOUNCEMENT] almpeg

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Hi,

Le 25 mai 2025 22:22:52 GMT+03:00, Michael Niedermayer <michael at niedermayer.cc> a écrit :
>Note the license of this code is a bit wonky. The files have one
>license and theres another one in LICENSE.md.
>While I belives legally this allows one to choose either. I suggest
>you check this with a lawyer.

You do realise that FFmpeg does the exact same thing:
- have a top-level license file (with the same name even) explaining, or trying to explain, which file is under which license,
- carry a copy of every GNU licenses as separate files.

Do you think that means that anyone can pick any listed license for FFmpeg? Are you saying that anyone can take your FFmpeg IP under MIT or BSD licenses? Or take the GPL code as LGPL code?

I and probably most people here think otherwise. That's not how this works and as a major copy-left open-source developer, you should know that.

Librempeg, as a whole, is AGPL. And if you strip the AGPL bits, it's GPLv2. All you're going to achieve with this mail is infuriate Paul by encouraging people to literally steal his IP.


And then it's utterly impossible for such a massive changeset to be reviewed. So even if it weren't for the license incompatibilities, there's no way we could merge into FFmpeg.