<div>Hi all</div>
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<div>I also intended to reply in the previous thread , and was to lazy to do so.</div>
<div>I think changing the license to LGPL is OK , I think it will indeed result in more</div>
<div>developers working on the code and making it better.</div>
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<div> True , some will just use the library as it is , but most will try to improve the encoder and we will all benefit from it. <br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/1/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Panagiotis Issaris</b> <<a href="mailto:takis.issaris@uhasselt.be">takis.issaris@uhasselt.be</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hi x264 developers,<br><br>Our current employer recently showed a strong interest for h264. More<br>specifically, they want to have an LGPL implementation of an encoder
<br>preferably integrated in ffmpeg.<br><br>x264 is using the GPL license, but I noticed a recent discussion [1] on<br>this mailinglist in which a request for a possible license change<br>was not totally rejected.<br><br>
In fact, in that discussion Laurent Aimar stated that he would not<br>object a license change if all other developers would agree on this.<br><br>Unfortunately, only one other develop replied to that thread, stating<br>that he would agree only if it would imply that x264 would actually
<br>benefit from such a license change. Meaning that it would result in<br>actual contributions to x264 and not just increasing its usage.<br><br>What would the other developers of x264 think about a license change?<br><br>
>From our perspective, well, we just need an LGPL H.264 encoder. So<br>regardless of the outcome, we will have to provide an LGPL licensed<br>encoder. The difference would be, that instead of putting time and<br>effort in reinventing the wheel while writing a new implementation, we
<br>could spent that time enhancing the existing codebase.<br><br>With friendly regards,<br>Takis & Jori<br><br>[1] <a href="http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.x264.devel/893">http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.x264.devel/893
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