Clarify LGPL and GPL licensing of FFmpeg.

Originally committed as revision 10109 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
18 years ago · a92b819a2d
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@ -9,11 +9,10 @@ FFmpeg README
 2) Licensing
 ------------

-* Read the file COPYING. ffmpeg and the associated libraries EXCEPT
-  libpostproc and libswscale are licensed under the GNU Lesser General
+* Read the file COPYING.LGPL. FFmpeg and the associated libraries EXCEPT
+  for libpostproc and libswscale are licensed under the GNU Lesser General
  Public License.

 * libpostproc and libswscale are distributed under the GNU General Public
-  License and their compilation and use is optional in ffmpeg.
-
-Fabrice Bellard.
+  License, see the file COPYING.GPL for details. Their compilation and use
+  in FFmpeg is optional.