Please forward any requests about legal issues to Fedora Legal mailing list: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ The Fedora development mailing list is not appropriate for legal inquiries for packaging software for Fedora. On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 2:32 PM, Pavel Alexeev <forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello. > > I found very interesting BPG image format - http://bellard.org/bpg/ > > Under licensing chapter on offsite stated: > > The BPG decoding library uses a modified version of FFmpeg released under > the LGPL version 2.1 as HEVC decoder. The BPG decoding library excluding the > FFmpeg code is released under the BSD license. > The BPG encoder as a whole is released under the GPL version 2 license. The > BPG encoder sources excluding x265 are released under the BSD license. The > x265 library is released under the GPL version 2 license. The optional JCTVC > HEVC reference encoder is released under the BSD license. > Some of the HEVC algorithms may be protected by patents in some countries > (read the FFmpeg Patent Mini-FAQ for more information). Most devices already > include or will include hardware HEVC support, so we suggest to use it if > patents are an issue. > > Licenses free. > Licensecheck also show mix of BSD, MIT and LGPL code. > > But what with codec patents? Is it acceptable in Fedora? > > > -- > With best wishes, Pavel Alexeev. > Yes, I'm a fool - I believe in people, honesty, goodness and justice. And > also in the fact that I can make this world just a little better unless stop > fighting. > http://hubbitus.info > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
