<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Google "x264 licensing"</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 7:57 AM Sebastian Dröge <<a href="mailto:sebastian@centricular.com">sebastian@centricular.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Tue, 2018-10-23 at 13:41 +0300, Vladislavs Zaluckis wrote:<br>
> Hi all,<br>
> I am sure this has been asked and answered before, I just somehow<br>
> fail to look it up. Can you please point me in the right direction or<br>
> just answer the following question.<br>
> <br>
> I am developing a commercial product based on the GStreamer framework<br>
> that will output an x264-encoded video stream. Obviously, I need a<br>
> commercial x264 license to do that. But then what about the x264enc<br>
> plugin from the "ugly" set? It is under GPL, so obviously I cannot<br>
> use it for a commercial product. So, do I have to develop a very<br>
> similar (if not identical) plugin to wrap the commercial libx264?<br>
> Hasn't this been done before? I would buy a commercial version of it<br>
> if it existed, but I don't see any references...<br>
<br>
The x264 plugin code is LGPL like most of GStreamer. The indication<br>
that the plugin is GPL in the plugin factory is because that's how most<br>
people link it: to the GPL x264 library.<br>
<br>
There's nothing preventing you from linking against the commercial x264<br>
library, and optionally changing that GPL indication to LGPL (which the<br>
combined situation would be for the plugin AFAIU, but I'm not a<br>
lawyer). That's what other people are doing in your situation.<br>
<br>
-- <br>
Sebastian Dröge, Centricular Ltd · <a href="http://www.centricular.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.centricular.com</a><br>
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