Opened 2 days ago

Last modified 39 hours ago

#11328 new defect

Which LGPL version is right? 2.1 or 3?

Reported by: Michael Enke Owned by:
Priority: normal Component: website
Version: unspecified Keywords:
Cc: Michael Enke Blocked By:
Blocking: Reproduced by developer: no
Analyzed by developer: no

Description

Summary of the bug:
At https://ffmpeg.org/legal.html it is mentioned the LGPL 2.1.
In the release files on Github (e.g. ​https://github.com/BtbN/FFmpeg-Builds/releases) is included LGPL 3.
Example file: ​https://github.com/BtbN/FFmpeg-Builds/releases/download/autobuild-2024-11-29-13-00/ffmpeg-n7.1-39-g64e2864cb9-win64-lgpl-7.1.zip

Change History (2)

comment:1 by Timo R., 2 days ago

Whichever one you select at configure time.

comment:2 by Balling, 39 hours ago

FFmpeg has either LGPL-2.1-or-later or GPL-2.0-or-later.

There is no just LGPL 2.1, only LGPL 2.1+ or in other words LGPL 2.1 is INCOMPATIBLE with ffmpeg, just like GPL2.0+ is not compatible with linux kernel, as Linux kernel only allows GPL2.0 (without + (or later)).

Last edited 39 hours ago by Balling (previous) (diff)
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