Re:In Praise of FFmpeg
by nsajko on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @11:32AM
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What makes LGPL unsuitable for you? Is LGPL not a permissive license?
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Re:In Praise of FFmpeg
by CodesInChaos on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @12:21PM
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It is a copyleft license, but the copyleft is weaker compared to the GPL.
No company of any significance would ever use it, for licensing issues. Now that is totally the choice of ffmpeg, and they are more that free to chose it. They may believe in the "all software should be free mantra", and again, that is totally fine. But it does significantly limit it's use, which again they may not care about.
Blender uses FFmpeg, and it's one of the most successful FOSS projects ever!
blender is open source.
Re:In Praise of FFmpeg
by peterashford on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @09:32PM
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I've certainly worked at companies which used LGPL software without any concern at all. Arguably, they weren't "significant" but they did examine the license and what it meant and felt it posed no risk.
Re:In Praise of FFmpeg
by preisschild on Thursday October 13, 2022 @03:46AM
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LGPL doesn't require your software to be open source. You shouldn't have licensing issues with it.
FFmpeg is a part of Chromium and Chrome. That's it for "company of any significance would ever use it" statement.
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/third_party/ffmpe...
Also: All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020) https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1258531455220609025