[x264-devel] Re: Legal Status

[Nabeel Iqbal]

you may see the GNU GPL in detail on http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html 

The Video Genie <videogenie at hotmail.com> wrote:  I am really thankful for the information. I am specially thankful for the 
licensing information. Can you or anybody infrom about licencing issues of 
h264?

Kind Regards
The Video Genie


>From: Nabeel Iqbal 
>Reply-To: x264-devel at videolan.org
>To: x264-devel at videolan.org
>Subject: [x264-devel] Re: Legal Status
>Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 04:27:44 -0700 (PDT)
>
>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 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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