Customizing VLC and licensing

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SteMMo
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Customizing VLC and licensing

Postby SteMMo » 25 Jan 2007 09:36

Hi all,
is ti possible to embed VLC into an application?

How about license in this case?

How about mp4v and x264 licenses?
Is there a problem if i wish to use them (+ VLC) in a commercial product ?

Thanks a lot !

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Postby wser » 25 Jan 2007 09:51

try first to find out about your basic audio and video technolgies (MPEG, mp3, sources, GNU) and be shure that you don`t harm copyrights from developers, programmers or whatsoever (intellectually and materially)

Read this: http://www.fsf.org/licensing/essays/free-sw.html

Good Luck

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Postby xtophe » 26 Jan 2007 21:37

VLC (and x264) are released under the GNU GPL license. So if you integrate them in a software the software has to be released under the GPL license
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Postby pjwhite » 02 Feb 2007 17:24

if you don't intergrate it in, but use say vlc for displaying a video (by making calls to the command line) then it doesn't violate the GPL right?


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