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by dchest 6237 days ago
FFmpeg binary is compiled with "--enable-gpl". So yes, either author should recompile it with GPL disabled or release the source code of his application.

Anyway, with LGPL (I assume the point of your comment is educational, and you don't really need the source code for FFmpeg SVN-r17142), author can just provide instructions for downloading the source code for this revision from FFmpeg SVN, as written here: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#AnonFTPAndSendSourc...

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Yes, assuming they haven't modified FFmpeg.