X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=404c33b1c532e04f28cdc1edf09e31a297d7d96c;hb=572c6a3814c7f08e9dca0cceaeb19265fcc57a6e;hp=cadf5d55e998a7e52684df6564aad91814970790;hpb=4745b5bf6cad82df283c032262316285a51660aa;p=ffmpeg diff --git a/README b/README index cadf5d55e99..404c33b1c53 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -9,8 +9,27 @@ FFmpeg README 2) Licensing ------------ -* Read the file COPYING. ffmpeg and the associated libraries EXCEPT - liba52 are licensed under the Lesser GNU General Public - License. liba52 is distributed under the GNU General Public License. +* Read the file COPYING.LGPL. FFmpeg and the associated libraries EXCEPT + for libpostproc and libswscale are licensed under the GNU Lesser General + Public License. -Fabrice Bellard. \ No newline at end of file +* libpostproc and libswscale are distributed under the GNU General Public + License, see the file COPYING.GPL for details. Their compilation and use + in FFmpeg is optional. + +* The file libavcodec/x86/idct_mmx.c is distributed under the GNU General + Public License. It is strictly an optimization and its use is optional. + +* The file libavcodec/ac3dec.c is distributed under the GNU General Public + License. In order for (E-)AC-3 decoding to work you need to enable GPL + components. + +* The file libavdevice/x11grab.c is distributed under the GNU General + Public License. X11 grabbing is optional. + +* The files libavcodec/jfdctfst.c, libavcodec/jfdctint.c, libavcodec/jrevdct.c + are taken from libjpeg, see the top of the files for licensing details. + +* The file libavcodec/fdctref.c is copyrighted by the MPEG Software Simulation + Group with all rights reserved. It is only used to create a DCT test program + and not compiled into libavcodec.