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Originally Posted by Ignus2
About the license: well, I'm not a lawyer, so I can't come up with licenses, so I'll just say that the version you can download from the site is free to use for whatever you want and the sources are not included  |
You don't need to be a lawyer. If you ever decide to "open" your sources, you could just put them, for example, under a (L)GPL license - which would make it possible to integrate your Codec into FFmpeg (libavcodec), thus making it available in pretty much any OpenSource tool. Currently it's tied not only to the Windows platform but also to the (deprecated) VFW interface, which limits its applications, of course. And it has every user to rely on you to provide "free" decoders in the future (the last point might not be
that critical for an "intermediate" Codec though)