[Bug 411960] Re: reconsider ffmpeg gpl mode

[Ulrich von Zadow]

I see two issues with the current situation:

1. The fact that all Ubuntu packages using the ffmpeg libraries are
under the GPL is not stated explicitly anywhere. That can cause
inadvertent license breaches.

2. There is no way to use the gstreamer (or libavg etc.) package under
the LGPL using the current ubuntu packages. That prevents anyone
distributing closed-source software from using these packages. The
maintainers of gstreamer very probably intended for this to be possible.
In the case of libavg, I know that the maintainer intended to allow
closed-source development, because I am the maintainer ;-).

So from my point of view, having additional LGPL packages would be
great.

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reconsider ffmpeg gpl mode
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/411960
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