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by jackbeck 1837 days ago
It’s free to use, but it’s not open source.
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jawngee 1837 days ago
How are you using FFMPEG but it's not open source?
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hug 1837 days ago
ffmpeg is available under lgpl, so his project doesn't need to be open source, although the wasm version of ffmpeg itself should be.
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beagle3 1837 days ago
No, but it does need to be distributed in such a way that users can replace the ffmpeg provided with the product, with their own version of ffmpeg (and of course, provide a source from which the distributed ffmpeg can be built, unless it’s already configure/make/make-install upstream. Some say even if already upstream)

But also, depending on codecs, it might be GPL; e.g. x264 itself is GPLd as are some other codecs. There are BSD licensed codecs. As ffmpeg relies on many other projects to provide codecs, it’s on a codec by codec basis - though the original configure makes it easy to disable all GPL upstrrams.

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jackbeck 1837 days ago
The wasm port of ffmpeg that I'm using isn't modified so there's nothing for me to open source. Once I finalize my modifications of the library, I'll be open sourcing it.
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