Hi Kieran

On Thu, Aug 21, 2025 at 06:56:14AM -1000, Kieran Kunhya via ffmpeg-devel wrote:
[...]
> For the record, Paul had a note saying changes are under GPL. As I
> understand you are ignoring legal advice saying this is a valid statement.
> 
> Can you confirm the legal advice you were given and that you are ignoring
> it?

We have hired one of the leading copyright / IP law firms / lawyers

And the shortest summary is that code with LGPL headers can be used under LGPL.
The oppinion of the lawyer (which is much longer and more detailed) was
provided to the General Assembly of FFmpeg.

thx

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