FFmpeg README ------------- 1) Documentation ---------------- * Read the documentation in the doc/ directory. 2) Licensing ------------ * Read the file COPYING.LGPL. FFmpeg and the associated libraries EXCEPT for libpostproc and libswscale are licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License. * libpostproc and libswscale are distributed under the GNU General Public License, see the file COPYING.GPL for details. Their compilation and use in FFmpeg is optional. * The file libavcodec/i386/idct_mmx.c is distributed under the GNU General Public License. It is strictly an optimization and its use is optional. * The file libavdevice/x11grab.c is distributed under the GNU General Public License. X11 grabbing is optional. * The files libavcodec/jfdctfst.c, libavcodec/jfdctint.c, libavcodec/jrevdct.c are taken from libjpeg, see the top of the files for licensing details. * The file libavcodec/fdctref.c is copyrighted by the MPEG Software Simulation Group with all rights reserved. It is only used to create a DCT test program and not compiled into libavcodec.