#1 what?

[geeky-geek]

So, this should become an alternative to libavcodec, which is mostly LGPL-licensed. It's a bad license, because it does not allow static linking.

The suitable licenses for the core library could maybe be extremely permissive, like zlib or CC0. The individual codecs can have a little more restrictive permissive licenses, such as BSD.

Well, there are already some permissive codecs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open_source_codecs

Video codecs (license):

• libvpx (new BSD)
• libtheora (3-clause BSD)

Audio codecs (license):

• FLAC libraries (BSD)
• MusePack (L-GPL/BSD?)
• libspeex (BSD-style)
• libcelt (2-clause BSD)
• libopus (3-clause BSD)
• libvorbis (BSD-style)
• iLBS (3-clause BSD)
• iSAC (3-clause BSD)
• WavPack (BSD)
• Apple Lossless (Apache License 2.0)

[geeky-geek]

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+So, this should become an alternative to libavcodec, which is mostly LGPL-licensed. It's a bad license, because it does not allow static linking.
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+The suitable licenses for the core library could maybe be extremely permissive, like zlib or CC0. The individual codecs can have a little more restrictive permissive licenses, such as BSD.
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 Well, there are already some permissive codecs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open_source_codecs

 Video codecs (license):