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Commit 4656c375 authored by Diego Biurrun's avatar Diego Biurrun
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Move around one paragraph, add headings for greater clarity.

Originally committed as revision 19115 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
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FFmpeg:
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Most files in FFmpeg are under the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1
or later (LGPL v2.1+). Read the file COPYING.LGPLv2.1 for details. Some other
files have MIT/X11/BSD-style licenses. In combination the LGPL v2.1+ applies to
......@@ -18,6 +21,15 @@ Specifically, the GPL parts of FFmpeg are
libavcodec/x86/idct_mmx.c
- the X11 grabber in libavdevice/x11grab.c
There are a handful of files under other licensing terms, namely:
* The files libavcodec/jfdctfst.c, libavcodec/jfdctint.c, libavcodec/jrevdct.c
are taken from libjpeg, see the top of the files for licensing details.
external libraries:
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Some external libraries, e.g. libx264, are under GPL and can be used in
conjunction with FFmpeg. They require --enable-gpl to be passed to configure
as well.
......@@ -26,8 +38,3 @@ The nonfree external libraries libamrnb, libamrwb and libfaac can be hooked up
in FFmpeg. You need to pass --enable-nonfree to configure to enable them. Employ
this option with care as FFmpeg then becomes nonfree and unredistributable.
Note that libfaac claims to be LGPL, but is not.
There are a handful of files under other licensing terms, namely:
* The files libavcodec/jfdctfst.c, libavcodec/jfdctint.c, libavcodec/jrevdct.c
are taken from libjpeg, see the top of the files for licensing details.
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