[MEncoder-users] FW: Questions about licencing of Mencoder

[Trejkaz]

On Monday 16 April 2007 19:48, Nico Sabbi wrote:
> >(I don't know if it will be possible... I must see with our client)?
>
> if not you can't distribute your application and mencoder

To explain that a bit more, it means you can distribute your application 
*without* mencoder, and have the user install it separately (which I've seen 
software doing already.)  You can make this easier on the user by 
redistributing the mencoder bundle as a separate package, as long as any 
modifications you make to mencoder itself have been made available to 
download.

The only time this enters the grey area is if your application automatically 
goes off to download mencoder, installing it for the user.  Different 
application authors (and it's the authors who ultimately get the say) have 
different opinions of the legality of that approach.

TX


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