[Libav-user] License and Documentation

[Colin Leroy-Mira]

Hi,

(not a lawyer, so these are just pointers)

> Are there any license agreements that must be reached to use the FFMpeg library in a commercial application?

See https://www.ffmpeg.org/legal.html which explains everything. Have your legal department involved if you're unsure.

> By what means can I reach FFMpeg regarding such an agreement?

I'm not part of the ffmpeg project, just one user, so I can't answer that.

> Are there any professional documentation available other than the documentation on the FFMpeg website for accessing the library via source code.

You'll find that https://ffmpeg.org/doxygen/trunk/ is rather exhaustive. If you need help and tutorials, there are some great resources on internet, like https://github.com/leandromoreira/ffmpeg-libav-tutorial/blob/master/. This repository's license is BSD 3-clause, which means you can reuse code from the examples as long as you comply with the license (basically include the author's copyright in your distribution).

HTH,
-- 
Colin