[FFmpeg-user] Two questions about LGPL

[Carl Zwanzig]

There are _many_ answers to the linking question out there, a simple search 
will turn them up-
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1394623/can-i-dynamically-call-a-lgpl-gpl-software-in-my-closed-source-application
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10130143/gpl-lgpl-and-static-linking
https://fossa.com/blog/open-source-software-licenses-101-lgpl-license/

or even
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html
and
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#LGPLStaticVsDynamic

On 4/6/2022 4:23 AM, 宋麒 wrote:
> Q2: If my commercial product is a "work that uses FFmpeg", do I need to
> remove all prohibition of reverse engineering from the EULA of my product?

I'd do that anyway; it's pretty much unenforceable, at least in the USA and 
probably Europe, and tells people that they won't have to look very hard to 
see how things work.

The first stop for ffmpeg license questions is 
https://ffmpeg.org/legal.html, and for (L)GPL questions is the FAQs linked 
above.

z!