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No company of any significance would ever use it, for licensing issues. Now that is totally the choice of ffmpeg, and they are more that free to chose it. They
by mbfg 4y ago
No company of any significance would ever use it, for licensing issues. Now that is totally the choice of ffmpeg, and they are more that free to chose it. They may believe in the "all software should be free mantra", and again, that is totally fine. But it does significantly limit it's use, which again they may not care about.
- mkaic 4y agoBlender uses FFmpeg, and it's one of the most successful FOSS projects ever!
- mbfg 4y agoblender is open source.
- peterashford 4y agoI've certainly worked at companies which used LGPL software without any concern at all. Arguably, they weren't "significant" but they did examine the license and what it meant and felt it posed no risk.
- preisschild 4y agoLGPL doesn't require your software to be open source. You shouldn't have licensing issues with it.
- Lockal 4y agoFFmpeg is a part of Chromium and Chrome. That's it for "company of any significance would ever use it" statement. https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/third_party/ffmpeg/ https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/third_party/ffmpe... Also: All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020) https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1258531455220609025 https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1258531455220609025
- mbfg 4y agoChromium is open source. Sorry, let me be more clear, no closed-source company of any significance is going to use LGPL.