[FFmpeg-user] Regarding ./configure and nonfree

[Carl Zwanzig]

On 9/10/2024 1:39 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
> What exactly in "nonfree" is not clear?

...most of it unless you dive into the various licensing pages and 
divine the meaning _in context_ of "non-free".

Or, it was a reasonable question for the OP to ask.


For the OP-
There are a lot of "it depends" about which pieces of ffmpeg are 
licensed by LGPL/GPL2/GPL3/etc, and also whether you're statically or 
dynamically linking to the various libraries. You'll have to look which 
specific pieces you want to use (or exclude). (IMHO, the first part is 
to decide which containers/codecs/filters/etc you want and exclude all 
the rest.)

And, of course, read the ffmpeg licensing page. There is commercial 
software that includes either ffmpeg libraries or the full package, but 
under conditions such as making all the source code available or 
sometimes by running an ffmpeg executable with data piped in/out of it.

z!