#1 Go dual licence with both LGPL and GPL?

[Anonymous]

Go dual licence with both LGPL and GPL

I'm not sure if this is a feature or request or
support requests so I posted in both trackers here on
sourceforge.

I was wondering if (and if not, why?) the Dr.DivX
project could start using both the LGPL and GPL
licenses? As using dual licenses will open up may
doors in the way of using other people source code as
libraries in this project. If you adopted the GPL as a
secondary license you could use for example use LGPL
for the Dr. DivX GUI and FFmpeg but use GPL for some
codec libraries, like FAAC (GPL'ed AAC encoder
library) and x264 (GPL'ed H.264/AVC encoder library).
Those libraries could then each be used as either
separate DLL (Dynamic Link Library) or separate static
libaries, that way one could still choose compile
Dr.DivX as GPL or LGPL, and still use Dr.DivX in both
cases but when compiling as LGPL you would not get
those codecs that require the GPL licence.

Other projects that's dual licence with LGPL and GPL:
FFmpeg; uses LGPL for most of the codecs but GPL for
some, FFmpeg can then be built with either licence.
FAAC; uses LGPL for their decoder and GPL for encoder.
XBMC; uses GPL for the GUI and LGPL for FFmpeg DLL's.

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Awesome... anything to promote DivX health on the planet.

Regards
Pascal