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FFmpeg README
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1) Documentation
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* Read the documentation in the doc/ directory.
2) Licensing
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* Read the file COPYING.LGPL. FFmpeg and the associated libraries EXCEPT
for libpostproc are licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License
version 2.1 or later.
* libpostproc is distributed under the GNU General Public License version 2
or later, see the file COPYING.GPL for details. Its compilation and use in
FFmpeg is optional.
* libswscale contains some optional processor-specific optimizations that are
distributed under the GNU General Public License version 2 or later.
* The files libavcodec/x86/idct_mmx.c, libavcodec/x86/h264_deblock_sse2.asm
and libavcodec/x86/h264_idct_sse2.asm are distributed under the GNU General
Public License version 2 or later. They are strictly optimizations and
their use is optional.
* The file libavcodec/ac3dec.c is distributed under the GNU General Public
License version 2 or later. In order for (E-)AC-3 decoding to work you
need to enable GPL components.
* The file libavdevice/x11grab.c is distributed under the GNU General
Public License version 2 or later. 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.
* Some external libraries are under GPL. If you wish to use them with FFmpeg,
you have to configure FFmpeg as GPL as well.