This module is provided free of charge to the general public.
Although Tridium hopes it will be useful, we provide no
warranty or guaranty for this module. You may use it however
you please at your own risk.

This module provides access in Niagara 4, from Java, to
various functions in the FFmpeg / AVCodec libraries
(www.ffmpeg.org). The terms of use for the FFmpeg / AVCodec
libraries are covered under the GNU LGPL license version
2.1, a copy of which is included in the same directory as
this license.txt file in the Niagara 4 ffmpeg-wb.jar module.

We hereby grant you full rights with the FFmpeg / AVCodec
libraries contained herein as described by the GNU LGPL
license (version 2.1) -- see lgpl-2.1.txt in the same
directory as this file for complete details.  

I, the author of this file, am not a lawyer. However, please
be advised that although the FFmpeg / AVCodec libraries
provide a comprehensive set of functions for encoding and
decoding video, many third parties claim software patent rights
over the encoding and decoding of some video formats even
though encoding and/or decoding these formats may be supported
in the FFmpeg / AVCodec libraries. These patents include but
are probably not limited to both MPEG4 and H264 encoding and
decoding.

Please beware that Tridium grants no such license or permission
to decode MPEG4, H264, or any other formats that might be
technically possible to decode and/or encode using this module
and the FFmpeg / AVCodec libraries; nor does Tridium even have
the authority to grant such licenses.

For a license to encode or decode MPEG4 and/or H264 video
in your product, visit:

 http://www.mpegla.com/index1.cfm
 
(As of the date this author is writing this content, the author
believes based on his own review of the www.mpegla.com web site,
that the license is free if your company sells less than
100,000 "units" per year. After that, it seems to be twenty cents
of a US dollar per unit sold.)

For general information about licensing and legalities concerning
the FFmpeg / AVCodec libraries, visit:

 http://www.ffmpeg.org/legal.html 

For more information about Tridium, visit:

 http://www.tridium.com
 
For more information about the Niagara community, visit:

 http://www.niagara-central.com
