h264 Decoder GPL or LGPL

Sebastian Dröge sebastian at centricular.com
Mon Jan 12 06:35:48 PST 2015


On Mo, 2015-01-12 at 19:53 +0530, pankaj bansal wrote:
> Hi I was looking inside gst-plugins-ugly and saw the h264 library. So dos
> that mean the xh264 decoder in GStreamer is not LGPL ? Or xh264 library is
> just used for encoding and decoder is somewhere else and LGPL ?

x264 is an encoder and GPL licensed (or you can get a commercial
license). There's also openh264 in gst-plugins-bad (which is BSD-style
licensed and contains an encoder and decoder for base profile only), and
gst-libav which contains a LGPL licensed decoder.

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Sebastian Dröge, Centricular Ltd · http://www.centricular.com
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