[x264-devel] Re: Legal Status

[Nabeel Iqbal]

x264 is distributed under GPL licence and according to this just changing the naming convention does't mean the different code. many tools are available to analyse such kind of violations. moreover if any software include the open source module in their software then this whole new software has to be under GPL . companies don't do this kindly of things becuase the legal penalties could lead the liquadation of compnay (very high price for any company)

farooq Ahmad <videogenie at hotmail.com> wrote:  What will be the legal status of companies that just modify naming 
conventions for variables as well as functions but keep similar code 
structure? Will that code be considered their proprietary implementation? 
What are the licensing issues in using x264 current implementation.

Regards
The Video Genie

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