[FFmpeg-cvslog] configure: openssl is compatible with the LGPL.

Reimar Döffinger Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de
Mon May 28 20:38:40 CEST 2012


On 28 May 2012, at 15:50, git at videolan.org (Michael Niedermayer) wrote:
> ffmpeg | branch: master | Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> | Mon May 28 15:36:35 2012 +0200| [f997ac1c8bc2124c4c6bf33ad17bc6f6cca0f84e] | committer: Michael Niedermayer
> 
> configure: openssl is compatible with the LGPL.
> 
> looking at the license i cannot see why they would be incompatible and
> researching this matter a bit also turned up no reasons.
> 
> If i missed something, please dont hesitate to flame me and or revert

I believe that you at least missed that statically linked ffmpeg, ffprobe etc. do not follow the openssl requirement of printing those messages and are thus at least not redistributable.
Even if that was not the case, it is at the very least confusing when --enable-gpl gives neither a sub- nor superset of the features without.


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