[FFmpeg-devel] GP License question

[Aaron Boxer]

Hi Carl,


On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 10:16 AM, Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos at ag.or.at> wrote:

> Aaron Boxer <boxerab <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 8:32 AM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> > > Aaron Boxer <boxerab <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > >
> > > > I am developing a jpeg 2000 codec licensed under Affero GPL.
> > >
> > > Why don't you work on fixing the remaining issues with
> > > FFmpeg's implementation instead?
> >
> > That would be OpenJPEG.
>
> (With the intention to distract from the fruitless
> license discussion: We will not accept AGPL contributions
> and we won't encourage you to start an AGPL fork.)
>

Thanks. Don't worry, I am not interested in contributing my AGPL component
to FFMpeg.
Nor am I interested in forking FFMpeg.

But, I would like to find a way of distributing FFMPeg with my codec,
so users can take advantage of it if they are interested.
This codec will be significantly faster than any other open source codec.


>
> No, FFmpeg contains a native Jpeg 2000 codec. I don't
> remember it being slow but it has missing features and
> it would be great if you worked on it. See trac (or the
> conformance samples) for examples for decoder problems,
> the encoder does not compress good enough.
>

Thanks. I'm afraid I have my hands full with my own library :)

Personally, I would recommend switching over to OpenJPEG:
BSD 2 license, ISO reference implementation for standard,
and large test suite. Rather than spending time on your native codec.
Just my 2 cents.  Codec development requires an enormous amount of time
and expertise to get right.

Kind Regards,
Aaron