[FFmpeg-user] Licensing ffmpeg

[kushal ghosh]

"Use it commercially" means to use the binary as a part of an commercial
application. So the takeaway is the compile it without those flags. Thanks
for these pointers. I had gone through the Legal page and wanted a second
opinion from experts here as I am not professional legally qualified to
make best sens of it.
Thanks

On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 10:11 AM Carl Zwanzig <cpz at tuunq.com> wrote:

> On 9/22/2019 9:27 PM, kushal ghosh wrote:
> > Yes. I took a published build of ffmpeg and want to use commercially.
> > I am not very specific in using any of the licensed or patented parts of
> > ffmpeg.
> > So basically I want to n=know what the thing to be done so that I can
> > commercially use it.
> > I believe only LGPL part of it can be used freely?
>
> You need to actually read the GPL and LGPL text (or even the GPL FAQ),
> that
> will tell you what you can do and how. (And what does "use it
> commercially"
> mean, anyway? Sell it? Sell something -containing- parts of ffmpeg?
> Something else?)
>
> See https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html and
> https://www.ffmpeg.org/legal.html, they're fairly clear.
>
>
> I'll go out on a limb and say that you should be OK if you distribute a
> binary built without "--enable-gpl" or "--enable-nonfree", include or make
> available the exact source code used to build that binary, and include the
> appropriate copyright/license info (this is all on the "legal" page).
>
>
> You also need to stop top-posting on this mailing list.
>
> Later,
>
> z!
> not a lawyer, not giving legal advice, not even a committer to the ffmpeg
> project
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