[x264-devel] Re: License of x264 and request from users

[bond]

I am not a dev of x264, but i made lots of comparisons of it to basically
all publically existing commercial encoders and i have the opinion that x264
is one of the best avc encoders existing, quality and speedwise

i think the devs work is so good it shouldnt be given away "for free" to
commercial interests, which imho the lgpl means (yeah i know i am
exaggerating, but thats how i see it)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Laurent Aimar" <fenrir at via.ecp.fr>
To: <x264-devel at videolan.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 11:10 AM
Subject: [x264-devel] License of x264 and request from users


> It is about GPL license of x264 :
>
> > ----- Forwarded message from Guilhem Tardy <gravsten at yahoo.com> -----
> > From: Guilhem Tardy <gravsten at yahoo.com>
> > Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 23:07:44 -0800 (PST)
> > To: ffmpeg-devel at mplayerhq.hu
> > Subject: Re: [Ffmpeg-devel] why not have h264encoder in the libavcodec?
> >
> > There were many good points made last week about h264 encoder for
FFMPEG.
> >
> > I especially appreciated Luca Barbato's comment:
> >
> > > The point of lgpl and gpl is in fact respectively foster
> > > the usage or foster the free software development.
> >
> > >From the prompt release of x264 stubs for FFMPEG last time this issue
of a LGPL
> > H.264 encoder was discussed here (spring 2005), I conclude that the x264
team
> > wants their library to be used as widely as possible.
> >
> > And the debate of last week showed that some contributors to both x264
and
> > FFMPEG (e.g. Mike Melanson) are open to the LGPL.
> >
> > I would also expect (as shown in countless previous posts) that the
FFMPEG team
> > would prefer a "native" H.264 codec (whether LGPL or GPL) compared to
stubs for
> > an external library such as x264.
>
>  I have also received requests to change license from GPL to LGPL.
>
>  I do not know the opinions of others developpers or if this issue has
> already been discussed elsewhere.
>  I think it would be nice to have an 'official' statement upon this issue.
>
>
> In my case:
>  I am not in favour of changing to LGPL (I used GPL license on purpose)
but
> I will not refuse it if all current main developpers want to do it.
>
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