[Libav-user] Using ffmpeg.exe in a project (non-commercial)

John Dexter jdxsolutions at gmail.com
Thu Feb 23 13:16:24 CET 2012


On 23 February 2012 12:07, Phil Turmel <philip at turmel.org> wrote:
> Finally, whatever the legality, it is at least rude to hijack an open-
> source app's website bandwidth to deliver source code to *your* users.

Apart from the inherent problem of defining social etiquette within a
legal contract... if I distribute ffmpeg.exe _un-modified_,  are the
users MY users or ffmpeg's users? If I _don't_ distribute it but tell
users they need to download it, then who is responsible?


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