[Libav-user] Building with purchased libraries

[Yury Udovichenko]

Does this mean we cannot use legally purchased binary library with FFMPEG
under LGPL license? According to ffmpeg docs, we must use this flag in
order to build it with h.264 transcoding capabilities.

Best regards,
Yury Udovichenko,
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On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 9:06 PM, Paul B Mahol <onemda at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 12/8/15, Yury Udovichenko <sales at wmspanel.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Our company is in process of purchasing binary version of x264 library
> from
> > the legal representative of the library owner. This means we are not
> > required to open the sources of our application.
> >
> > In addition we would like to use ffmpeg as part of the project but to use
> > x264 library, we have to use "--enable-gpl" flag.
> > This makes the project eligible for opening all sources under GPL.
> >
> > Our question is how do we build ffmpeg in a way not to be eligible for
> GPL?
> > E.g. can we fix the build system not to use --enable-gpl parameter and
> > release ffmpeg part under LGPL?
>
> Fix the build system? Are you serious?
> You are not allowed to do that.
> You must compile ffmpeg without --enable-gpl flag.
>
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Yury Udovichenko,
> > Nimble Streamer <https://wmspanel.com/nimble> | WMSPanel
> > <https://wmspanel.com/> | Dispersa <https://wmspanel.com/dispersa> |
> Larix
> > Broadcaster app <https://wmspanel.com/larix_broadcaster> + SDK and
> library
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