[Libav-user] Getting to grips with ffmpeg

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos at ...> writes:

> > I read somewhere that including a link to where users could download
> > the source themselves can be counted as "distributing the source"?
> 
> ... do exactly this as explained on http://ffmpeg.org/legal.html
> (because we think you can argue that the corresponding sources 
> "accompany" the binary distribution both if you distribute 
> them together in the same installation package and also if you 
> provide the sources as a separate link next to the download link 
> for your installer.

Or in other words: I assume that would count as 
"offering equivalent access" to the source code.

Carl Eugen