using commercial x264 encoder with GStreamer

[David Ing]

Google "x264 licensing"

On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 7:57 AM Sebastian Dröge <sebastian at centricular.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, 2018-10-23 at 13:41 +0300, Vladislavs Zaluckis wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I am sure this has been asked and answered before, I just somehow
> > fail to look it up. Can you please point me in the right direction or
> > just answer the following question.
> >
> > I am developing a commercial product based on the GStreamer framework
> > that will output an x264-encoded video stream. Obviously, I need a
> > commercial x264 license to do that. But then what about the x264enc
> > plugin from the "ugly" set? It is under GPL, so obviously I cannot
> > use it for a commercial product. So, do I have to develop a very
> > similar (if not identical) plugin to wrap the commercial libx264?
> > Hasn't this been done before? I would buy a commercial version of it
> > if it existed, but I don't see any references...
>
> The x264 plugin code is LGPL like most of GStreamer. The indication
> that the plugin is GPL in the plugin factory is because that's how most
> people link it: to the GPL x264 library.
>
> There's nothing preventing you from linking against the commercial x264
> library, and optionally changing that GPL indication to LGPL (which the
> combined situation would be for the plugin AFAIU, but I'm not a
> lawyer). That's what other people are doing in your situation.
>
> --
> Sebastian Dröge, Centricular Ltd · http://www.centricular.com
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