License & Dependencies

Mediaway is dual-licensed:

The license/dependency boundary is a hard rule, not a preference

No GPL / LGPL / AGPL / SSPL / BUSL dependencies — including FFmpeg crates or linking libav*, x264, x265. Enforced by cargo deny in CI.
No FFmpeg / libav* linked or vendored in any shipped Mediaway crate.
Software codecs, when used, are pure Rust sans-io only (mediaway-sw and codec cores) — explicit opt-in, never a silent fallback.
A system ffmpeg / ffprobe on PATH may be used as an optional test/dev oracle — comparing Mediaway’s own output against a well-known reference during testing — but it is never required to build or run shipped Mediaway. See ADR-0002.

Mediaway is not affiliated with the FFmpeg project. The product CLIs (mediaway-avcli, mediaway-avprobe) are independent tools.