- From: Miguel de Icaza <miguel@novell.com>
- Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 14:07:44 -0400
Hello, > I also understand that the LGPL doesn't explicitly "require [anyone] > to pass along patent rights we may have obtained elsewhere". However, > it seems quite clear that the intention of #11 is to say that you > cannot redistribute the code unless you do exactly that. > > What am I missing? At this point, I am just as confused as Hakom. I am curious if someone has contacted the FSF for the interpretation of the LGPL in this particular case. It would make a lot of people's life easier if they could license patents from MPEG-LA and redistribute ffmpeg. We are on a similar situation with Moonlight where we ended up distributing proprietary codecs for VC1 (also MPEG-LA licensed) instead of the open source ffmpeg. Today our answer for those that want to use ffmpeg (and it is my personal choice as well, since I rather dogfood open source software) is to compile Moonlight from source code and use the ffmpeg code themselves instead of depending on proprietary codecs to be installed. Miguel.
Received on Sunday, 7 June 2009 11:07:44 UTC