[gst-devel] gst-ffmpeg license

[Tim-Philipp Müller]

On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 15:56 -0300, Keevins, Tom wrote:

> I am working on a project where we are thinking of using Gstreamer for
> video streaming.  I am trying to determine what license the gst-ffmpeg
> plugin falls under.  On the Gstreamer site it seems to clearly specify
> LGPL as the license.  However, a person previously working on my
> current project, had sent an email stating the following.
>
> FFMPEG clearly has the LGPL license.  When you acquire a copy of
> FFMPEG there is a configuration file that allows you to either compile
> a GPL or LGPL version of the library depending on what options you
> set.   The gst-ffmpeg library seems to have been modified so that the
> GPL components are removed but they seem to have included the GPL
> license file with the distribution even though the configuration file
> seems to have hard coded an LGPL license flag.

> Can someone confirm the licensing of the gst-ffmpeg for me.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=532779 has some more details.

Cheers
 -Tim